Gaming as a cultural commons : risks, challenges, and opportunities / Toshiko Kikkawa, Willy Christian Kriz, Junkichi Sugiura, editors.
Kikkawa, Toshiko, editor.; Kriz, Willy Christian, editor.; Sugiura, Junkichi, editor.
2022
GV1469.34.S52
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Title Gaming as a cultural commons : risks, challenges, and opportunities / Toshiko Kikkawa, Willy Christian Kriz, Junkichi Sugiura, editors.
ISBN 9789811903489 (electronic bk.)
9811903484 (electronic bk.)
9811903476
9789811903472
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0348-9
Published Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-19-0348-9 doi
Call Number GV1469.34.S52
Dewey Decimal Classification 794.8/4
Summary This book focuses on relatively neglected areas of simulation and gaming (S&G), i.e., cultural aspects and ethical issues, in addition to giving readers a basic knowledge of S&G. Although the educational effects of S&G, and related methods such as gamification, as well as serious games have been studied and are gaining recognition, their downsides are often overlooked. For example, there is always a risk of manipulation by games if maliciously designed and facilitated. Ethical codes of game designers, facilitators, and educators must be established on the basis of academic research. Considerations of the ethics of games are essential not only for S&G researchers and educators but also for the general public, because games have sometimes been used for propaganda purposes in the past and could be again, in the present and future. Looking at the cultural aspect, as the S&G community has accumulated research over 50 years, the book includes the knowledge of the pioneers, i.e., archival interview data. This is the first book that includes extensive interviews of researchers and commercial game designers and critics. It also contains diverse topics from the perspective of gender and Japanese culture. Japan has been attracting attention in the field of board games as there are many independent game designers and an expanding market. Although women in S&G have gained some recognition, the topic has been rather ignored and was first officially discussed in 2019 at the international conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association held in Warsaw. In summary, by focusing on comparatively overlooked or neglected aspects of S&G, this book expands future opportunities in the field for researchers and educators, with increased awareness by the general public.
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Added Author Kikkawa, Toshiko, editor.
Kriz, Willy Christian, editor.
Sugiura, Junkichi, editor.
Series Translational systems sciences ; v. 28.
Available in Other Form GAMING AS A CULTURAL COMMONS.
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Preface- Part 1 Culture in Gaming and Simulation
Chapter 1: Gaming Simulation Terminology and Fundamentals
Chapter 2: Knowledge from the Great Ancestors: The Cone of Ab-straction Revisiting a Key Concept through Interviews with Gaming Simulation Veterans
Chapter 3
Board Game Immersion
Chapter 4: Women (and a little bit of Culture) in Simulation Gaming
Chapter 5: The Current Status of Japanese Game Players and its Impact on the Society
Part 2 Education
Chapter 6: Case Example: KIKATOPIA Game A Simulation Game on Diversity and Living together with Children as Co-designers
Chapter 7: Bringing Gaming into Education: Cultural Context and Ethical Issues in the Case of SN Games
Chapter 8: Code of Conduct for Facilitators and the Ethics of De-briefing
Chapter 9: Ethics and Simulation Games in a Cultural Context: Why Should we Bother? And What Can We Learn?
Part 3 Manipulation in Games
Chapter 10: Subtle Manipulation in Games
Chapter 11: Manipulation through Gamification and Gaming.

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