Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games: New Directions in Game Research II

book: Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games

New Directions in Game Research II

Edited by: Jimena Aguilar Rodríguez , Federico Alvarez Igarzábal , Michael S. Debus , Curtis L. Maughan , Su-Jin Song , Miruna Vozaru and Felix Zimmermann
Funded by: BMBF Fördervorhaben 16TOA002

Volume 15 in the series Bild und Bit

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462645

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About this book

Gaming has never been disconnected from reality. When we engage with ever more lavish virtual worlds, something happens to us. The game imposes itself on us and influences how we feel about it, the world, and ourselves. How do games accomplish this and to what end? The contributors explore the video game as an atmospheric medium of hitherto unimagined potential. Is the medium too powerful, too influential? A danger to our mental health or an ally through even the darkest of times? This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2019 and 2020 to provide answers to these questions.

Author / Editor information

Jimena Aguilar Rodríguez is the head of digital narratives at ifs internationale filmschule köln, and is the co-founder and creative director of Alharaca, a Salvadorean feminist news media organization.
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany, working in the EU-funded project VIRTUALTIMES. In 2018 he completed his PhD at Universität zu Köln and TH Köln.
Michael S. Debus is a postdoctoral researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen, entrepreneur, and industry expert. He obtained his PhD on game ontologies in 2019.
Curtis L. Maughan holds a PhD in German Studies from Vanderbilt University, where he is currently a postdoctoral scholar.
Su-Jin Song is a teaching and research assistant at the Cologne Game Lab of TH Köln, teaching in the field of media and game studies. She is also a film producer and director based in Germany.
Miruna Vozaru is a PhD fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen, working on the ERC funded project Making Sense of Games.
Felix Zimmermann received a scholarship from the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne for his doctoral project on atmospheric experiences of the past in digital games. He is part of the research group ›Geschichtswissenschaft und Digitale Spiele‹ (Historical Science and Digital Games).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Gundolf S. Freyermuth Open Access Download PDF	7
Acknowledgments Jimena Aguilar Rodríguez, Federico Alvarez Igarzábal, Michael S. Debus, Curtis L. Maughan, Su-Jin Song, Miruna Vozaru and Felix Zimmermann Open Access Download PDF	11
Mental Health
Play, Games, Mental Health An Introduction Federico Alvarez Igarzábal, Michael S. Debus, Curtis L. Maughan and Su-Jin Song Open Access Download PDF	13
Gaming Disorder – a “lousy” and “meaningless” label Rune Kristian Lundedal Nielsen Open Access Download PDF	21
Protecting the Youth by Controlling the Ludic Indexing Practices in 1980s West Germany Nils Bühler Open Access Download PDF	35
Mindspaces The Mind as a Visual and Ludic Artifact Anh-Thu Nguyen Open Access Download PDF	51
Reclaiming Agency Engaging Non-Human Agency for a Nuanced Portrayal of Mental Distress and Recovery Miruna Vozaru Open Access Download PDF	63
Digital Fictions: Towards Designing Narrative Driven Games as Therapy Natali Panic-Cidic Open Access Download PDF	77
Gamification and Mobile Apps: Allies in Reducing Loneliness Among Young Adults Rogério Augusto Bordini and Oliver Korn Open Access Download PDF	87
Mental Health of Twitch Streamers During COVID-19 Kelli Dunlap Open Access Download PDF	103
The End is Never The End is Never The End A Conclusion Miruna Vozaru Open Access Download PDF	117
Atmospheres
Introduction: Slow Play Notes on Enveloping Ambience in Video Games Sonia Fizek Open Access Download PDF	127
Cool Games, Cool Japan Staged Atmospheres in CYBERPUNK 2077 and GHOST OF TSUSHIMA Anh-Thu Nguyen Open Access Download PDF	147
“Wind's howling.” Meteorological Phenomena as Atmospheres in Digital Games Magdalena Leichter Open Access Download PDF	161
I Don’t Feel at Home in this Game Anymore A Closer Look at Uncanny Atmospheres in Walking Simulators Katja Aller Open Access Download PDF	177
Generative Atmospheres Ambient Modes of Experience in Digital Games Vadim Nickel Open Access Download PDF	195
Sounding the Atmosphere Björn Redecker Open Access Download PDF	209
Systemically Implied Atmospheres Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Atmosphere in Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games Jonathan Jung Johansen Open Access Download PDF	227
Conclusion: Toward an Atmospherology of Digital Games Felix Zimmermann Open Access Download PDF	243
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	255

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 262
Keywords: Mental Health; Atmosphere; Ambience; Play; Media; Popular Culture; Medicine; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies

eBook

Published: October 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839462645