This accessible textbook gives students the tools they need to analyze games using
strategies borrowed from textual analysis. As the field of game studies grows, videogame …

Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers
how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rituals, are forms of world-building or" …

Playing with Videogames documents the richly productive, playful and social cultures of
videogaming that support, surround and sustain this most important of digital media forms …

In this paper I will give a phenomenological account of embodied presence through
computer game avatars, based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's analysis of bodily intentionality …

I am grateful to a number of people for their support and help during the work with this thesis.
I wish to thank my supervisor Jostein Gripsrud for his guidance and support throughout the …

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry
has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive …

Government media-making, from official websites to whistleblowers'e-mail, and its
sometimes unintended consequences. Today government agencies not only have official …

Interactivity is the potential for, or phenomenon of, interaction; interactivity can be a property
of an artifact, a perception, or an experience. The term interactivity is not well understood …

What Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and
e-readers are becoming as common as printed books and where fans are blurring the …

Since the appearance in 1978 of Adventure on the Atari 2600, the cut-scene (alternatively
cutscene or cut scene) has been a key component to many video games. Often, the cut …