Games and Ethics
Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Ethical Questions in Digital Game Cultures
Editors: Groen, M., Kiel, N., Tillmann, A., Weßel, A. (Eds.)
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- Theoretical and empirical approaches to ethical questions in digital gaming cultures
- Research on digital gaming cultures
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- About this book
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The number of digital gamers is increasing worldwide, but public debates about digital games commonly focus on questionable game content or problematic gaming behavior. This book offers a broader ethical perspective on digital game cultures, presenting theoretical and empirical work on the ethical dimensions of the development, production and distribution of digital games, as well as issues relating to responsible gaming and the pedagogical use of digital games. Questions of the communicative-cultural change in game cultures are linked with questions of media education and media ethics. With such a comprehensive approach, the volume promotes ethical discourse on digital game cultures.
- About the authors
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Maike Groen is a scientific researcher for the DLR Project Management Agency, focussing on media pedagogy.
Nina Kiel is a game journalist, researcher, and developer.
Dr. Angela Tillmann is a professor of cultural and media pedagogy at TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences.
André Weßel is a research associate in the area of media pedagogy at TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Ethical Questions in Digital Game Cultures—A Multi-Perspective View
Pages 1-10
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Homo Ludens Reloaded: The Ethics of Play in the Information Age
Pages 13-27
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Ethical Dimensions of Digital Games
Pages 29-43
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Gaming Addiction—Underdefined, Overestimated?
Pages 47-59
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Re-Figuring Innovation in Games: A Feminist Interventionist Project
Pages 61-75
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Games and Ethics
- Book Subtitle
- Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Ethical Questions in Digital Game Cultures
- Editors
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- Maike Groen
- Nina Kiel
- Angela Tillmann
- André Weßel
- Series Title
- Digitale Kultur und Kommunikation
- Series Volume
- 7
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-28175-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-28175-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-28174-8
- Series ISSN
- 2512-0719
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 256
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 illustrations in colour
- Topics