Gaming is unlikely : a theory of ludic action / Fabian Arlt, Hans-Jürgen Arlt.
2023
HM1206
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Title
Gaming is unlikely : a theory of ludic action / Fabian Arlt, Hans-Jürgen Arlt.
Author
Arlt, Fabian, author.
ISBN
9783658399641 (electronic bk.)
3658399643 (electronic bk.)
9783658399634
3658399635
3658399643 (electronic bk.)
9783658399634
3658399635
Published
Wiesbaden : Springer, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from German.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 176 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-658-39964-1 doi
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HM1206
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.23
Summary
A concept of game is justified and developed that revolves around the lure and threat of the unexpected. The author duo places their theory of ludic action in classical concepts of the game as well as in the current discourse of game studies. The phenomenal multiplicity of games is outlined in historical perspective and structured in a systematic manner. The authors explain the media-technical and communicative preconditions of the computer game boom and reflect on the discussion about escalations of ludic violence. The instrumentalization of games, which is becoming increasingly popular under the heading of gamification, is critically examined. The conspicuous inflation of the game metaphor is brought into connection with ludic connotations in the social structures of modern and digital society. The content The social function and intrinsic nature of play ; Variations and transformations of the game ; Playing in the digital sandbox ; Gamification hype, pedagogical and economic colonizations ; Modern play spaces: On the ludic basic feeling of digital culture The authors Fabian Arlt, M. A., studied media management and is doing his doctorate in social and business communication at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Arlt is a social scientist and publicist, he teaches at the Institute for Theory and Practice of Communication at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
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Arlt, Hans-Jürgen, 1948- author.
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Table of Contents
Function and stubbornness of the game
The game discourse: points of consensus, contact, counterpoint
Variations and transformations of the game
Expansions and corruptions of the game
Modern game spaces and the Ludic basic feeling of digital culture.
The game discourse: points of consensus, contact, counterpoint
Variations and transformations of the game
Expansions and corruptions of the game
Modern game spaces and the Ludic basic feeling of digital culture.