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What is Game Studies

Challenges and Opportunities in Global Approaches to Education
The flourishing interdisciplinary scholarly field that studies video game influence on society in general and on players in particular.
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Playfulness and Seriousness: The Power of Video Games to Teach and Enhance Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
Elena Shliakhovchuk (The Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9775-9.ch001
Abstract
Despite the early focus on the demonizing of video games, in the 1990s some researchers suggested that video games might help in developing some useful skills and might convert in a new method of learning. At the beginning of the 21st century, researchers came to the conclusions that video games are more than a source of fun, relaxation, and distraction, but they are stages for the discourse on cultural, social, and political practices and systems that foster conceptual and critical thinking on a wide variety of issues. The 21st century gamers themselves confessed that games have an impact on the way they think, the way they learn, and the way they see the world.
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Gamers, Gender, and Representation
(Digital game studies, computer game studies) an emerging and interdisciplinary field that takes digital games, gaming, and play as a central focus.
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An Epistemology of the Event for the Digital Media: From Lewis Carroll to Elsagate
Group of academic studies that consider the issue of the video game from ontological, methodological or field theories perspectives.
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Mobile Games
The disciplinary field that focuses on game design and the socio-cultural impact of games.
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Digital Games and Orientalism: A Look at Arab and Muslim Representation in Popular Digital Games
Game studies, or ludology, is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them.
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Sea Queens: Indirect Interaction Model of LGBTIQ+ Narrative Exploration in the Classroom
The academic study of different forms of play, interaction, and structure expressed by playing games. Also known as ludology.
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