How do you start to conduct your own research? Where do you go to get ideas? How do you
design a good research project? How does it relate to the rest of your studies? What is the …

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate
and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting …

This article examines the fan practice of Let's Plays—video recordings that video game
players create of themselves playing that include live commentary or riffing. I argue that the …

Qualitative research that focuses on social interaction and talk has been increasingly based,
for good reason, on collections of audiovisual recordings in which 2D flat-screen video and …

„Der Mensch spielt nur, wo er in voller Bedeutung des Wortes Mensch ist, und er ist nur da
ganz Mensch, wo er spielt “, schrieb Friedrich Schiller 1795 im 15. Brief der Briefe über die …

2 Melanie Swalwell, Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis these texts examine game
fandom. likewise, the Fan Phenomena series (Intellect/University of Chicago Press) …

Where is the body of the gamer in game art? While game art explores the materiality of
digital games through examinations of the glitch, and in-game performances, it is less …

This paper examines what is known so far about the role of open source software
development within the world of game mods and modding practices. Game modding has …

Machinima is a new form of creative digital filmmaking that leverages the real time graphics
rendering of computer game engines. Because of the low barrier to entry, machinima has …

The rise of the" camera" in the context of videogames is generally associated with the
widespread use of real-time 3D graphics during the 1990s. The" virtual camera" of …