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Ecogames
With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible, games are increasingly participating in the production, circulation, and interrogation of environmental assumptions, using both explicit and implicit ways of framing the crisis. Whether they are providing new spaces to imagine and practice alternative forms of living, or reproducing ecomodernist fantasies, games as well as player cultures are increasingly tuned in to the most pressing environmental concerns. This book brings together chapters by a diverse group of established and emerging authors to develop a growing body of scholarship that explores the shape, impact, and cultural context of ecogames. The book comprises four thematic sections, Today's Challenges: Games for Change, Future Worlds: New Imaginaries, The Nonhuman Turn, and Critical Metagaming Practices. Each section explores different aspects of ecocritical engagement in and through games. As a result, the book's comprehensive scope covers a variety of angles, methodologies, and case studies, significantly expanding the field of green media studies.
Super Nintendo
What magical mushroom could have turned an unassuming playing card company into one of the dominant cultural forces of the twenty-first century? “Keza MacDonald pulls back the curtain on the Nintendo dream factory.” —Walt Williams, author of Significant Zero Super Nintendo is an exuberant ode to play and the epic story of the company that has redefined it—Nintendo’s quirky beginnings in 1889, its singular ethos, its endlessly innovative leaders and developers, its massive cultural impact, and, most of all, the video games themselves, which have inspired joy and creativity in millions. A lifelong gamer and a renowned video games journalist, Keza MacDonald digs down to Nintendo’s experimental roots, tracking the company’s rise with each new revolutionary product. She draws on private interviews with icons like Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, who continues to leave his stamp on the company, and takes readers on a trip to the secretive Nintendo HQ—making her one of the few Western journalists to have set foot inside the building. Leaping from game to game, Super Nintendo tells the remarkable story of the people who brought us Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, and more—not to mention the SNES, N64, Game Boy, Wii, Switch, and a host of other wacky gizmos—and charts the delights they’ve offered over the decades. Along the way, MacDonald uncovers the driving force behind these creative triumphs: a willingness to take risks and place long-term success over short-term profits. A carousel of wonders, Super Nintendo whisks you back to the couch in the den, a controller in your hands for the very first time, staring up at a screen of infinite possibilities.
Hybride Medialität
In diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer Zeit, in der digitale Medien zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen, die dynamische Interaktion innerhalb digitaler Praxisgemeinschaften am Beispiel von Let’s Play-Videos auf YouTube untersucht. Die Autorin beleuchtet die sich verändernden Medienwelten und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Sozialisation junger Menschen. Sie zeigt den Zusammenhang zwischen digitalen Spielen und traditionellen Lernformen auf und diskutiert notwendige Anpassungen. Mittels der Grounded Theory Methodology werden zwei kontrastierende Let’s Play-Videos analysiert, wobei der Fokus auf den Praktiken der Let’s Player und der dazugehörigen Community liegt. Ein eigens entwickeltes Kommunikationsebenenmodell beschreibt die interaktiven Beziehungen zwischen Spiel, Let’s Player und Community. Durch die narrative Erschließung bieten Let’s Play-Videos eine eigenständige Erzählperspektive an und bringen so eine neue Form des Erzählens in der digitalen Kultur hervor. Diese Arbeit zeigt auf, dass Let’s Play-Videos ästhetische Phänomene mit gemeinschaftsbildender und identitätsstiftender Funktion sind, die sich mit konventionellen Praktiken des Deutschunterrichts verbinden lassen und somit einen wichtigen sozialen Ort für die Enkulturation in der digitalen Gesellschaft darstellen.