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E-raamat: Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

Edited by (University of York, UK), Edited by (University of Utah, USA)
  • Formaat: 464 pages, 6 Tables, black and white; 25 Halftones, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Apr-2018
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315637532
  • Taylor & Francis e-raamat
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  • Formaat: 464 pages, 6 Tables, black and white; 25 Halftones, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Apr-2018
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315637532

This handbook, for the first time, collects the state of research on role-playing games across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, this book traces the history of the genre from wargaming precursors and tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and MMORPG franchises like Fallout or World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on role-playing games from key disciplines like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from role-playing game studies around broadly significant topics like transmedia worldbuilding, immersion, transgressive play, and player-character relations. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help fans, students, and scholars new to role-playing game studies find their way into this new interdisciplinary field.

Foreword viii
1 The Many Faces of Role-Playing Game Studies
1(16)
Sebastian Deterding
Jose P. Zagal
PART I Definitions
17(36)
2 Definitions of "Role-Playing Games"
19(34)
Jose P. Zagal
Sebastian Deterding
PART II Forms
53(136)
3 Precursors
55(8)
Jon Peterson
4 Tabletop Role-Playing Games
63(24)
William J. White
Jonne Arjoranta
Michael Hitchens
Jon Peterson
Evan Tomer
Jonathan Walton
5 Live-Action Role-Playing Games
87(20)
J. Tuomas Harviainen
Rafael Bienia
Simon Brind
Michael Hitchens
Yaraslau I. Kot
Esther MacCallum-Stewart
David W. Simkins
Jaakko Stenros
Ian Sturrock
6 Single-Player Computer Role-Playing Games
107(23)
Douglas Schules
Jon Peterson
Martin Picard
7 Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games
130(29)
Mark Chen
Riley Leary
Jon Peterson
David W. Simkins
8 Online Freeform Role-Playing Games
159(13)
Jessica Hammer
9 The Impact of Role-Playing Games on Culture
172(17)
Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Jaakko Stenros
Staffan Bjork
PART III Disciplinary Perspectives
189(158)
10 RPG Theorizing by Designers and Players
191(22)
Evan Tomer
11 Performance Studies and Role-Playing Games
213(14)
Sarah Hoover
David W. Simkins
Sebastian Deterding
David Meldman
Amanda Brown
12 Sociology and Role-Playing Games
227(18)
J. Patrick Williams
David Kirschner
Nicholas Mizer
Sebastian Deterding
13 Psychology and Role-Playing Games
245(20)
Sarah Lynne Bowman
Andreas Lieberoth
14 Literary Studies and Role-Playing Games
265(18)
David Jara
Evan Tomer
15 Learning and Role-Playing Games
283(17)
Jessica Hammer
Alexandra To
Karen Schrier
Sarah Lynne Bowman
Geoff Kaufman
16 Economics and Role-Playing Games
300(14)
Isaac Knowles
Edward Castronova
17 Science and Technology Studies and Role-Playing Games
314(9)
Rafael Bienia
18 Game Design and Role-Playing Games
323(14)
Staffan Bjork
Jose P. Zagal
19 Communication Research and Role-Playing Games
337(10)
William J. White
PART IV Interdisciplinary Issues
347(122)
20 Worldbuilding in Role-Playing Games
349(15)
Karen Schrier
Evan Tomer
Jessica Hammer
21 Role-Playing Games as Subculture and Fandom
364(15)
Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Aaron Trammell
22 Immersion and Shared Imagination in Role-Playing Games
379(16)
Sarah Lynne Bowman
23 Players and Their Characters in Role-Playing Games
395(16)
Sarah Lynne Bowman
Karen Schrier
24 Transgressive Role-Play
411(14)
Jaakko Stenros
Sarah Lynne Bowman
25 Sexuality and the Erotic in Role-Play
425(15)
Ashley M.L. Brown
Jaakko Stenros
26 Representation and Discrimination in Role-Playing Games
440(8)
Aaron Trammell
27 Power and Control in Role-Playing Games
448(21)
Jessica Hammer
Whitney Beltran
Jonathan Walton
Moyra Turkington
Contributors 469(8)
Glossary of Key Role-Playing Game Terms 477(4)
Index 481
Sebastian Deterding is a Reader at the Digital Creativity Labs at the University of York (York, UK). He has been an RPG player and designer for more than 20 years and has published ethnographic portraits of the German pen-and-paper RPG subculture. He is founder and organizer of the Gamification Research Network and co-editor of The Gameful World (MIT Press, 2015), a book about the ludification of culture. He holds a PhD in media studies from Hamburg University. See also: http://codingconduct.cc/.

José P. Zagal is an Associate Professor with the University of Utahs Entertainment Arts & Engineering program. He wrote Ludoliteracy (2010) and edited The Videogame Ethics Reader (2012). In 2016, he was honored as a Distinguished Scholar by the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) for his contributions to the field of game research. He also serves as the Editor-In-Chief of DiGRAs flagship journal Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association (ToDiGRA). He received his PhD in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. See also: http://www.eng.utah.edu/~zagal/.