Name: Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games (Electronic Mediations) (en Inglés)
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Author: Alenda Y. Chang
ISBN: 9781517906320

portada Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games (Electronic Mediations) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Minnesota Press

Autor

Alenda Y. Chang

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

309

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781517906320

N° edición

Categorías

Juegos de ordenador y en línea

Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games (Electronic Mediations) (en Inglés)

Alenda Y. Chang (Autor) · University Of Minnesota Press · Tapa Blanda

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A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, but can they go beyond the realm of entertainment to do something serious-like help us save the planet? As one of the signature issues of the twenty-first century, ecological deterioration is seemingly everywhere, but it is rarely considered via the realm of interactive digital play. In Playing Nature, Alenda Y. Chang offers groundbreaking methods for exploring this vital overlap. Arguing that games need to be understood as part of a cultural response to the growing ecological crisis, Playing Nature seeds conversations around key environmental science concepts and terms. Chang suggests several ways to rethink existing game taxonomies and theories of agency while revealing surprising fundamental similarities between game play and scientific work. Gracefully reconciling new media theory with environmental criticism, Playing Nature examines an exciting range of games and related art forms, including historical and contemporary analog and digital games, alternate- and augmented-reality games, museum exhibitions, film, and science fiction. Chang puts her surprising ideas into conversation with leading media studies and environmental humanities scholars like Alexander Galloway, Donna Haraway, and Ursula Heise, ultimately exploring manifold ecological futures-not all of them dystopian.