An Introduction to Society & Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface
4. Federal Ministry of Labour, Family and Youth 11
5. University of Klagenfurt 13
6. KPH Vienna/Krems 17
7. Mixed Reality / Contributions to the 13th Future and Reality of Gaming Conference 2019 in Vienna
8. Introduction to Mixed Reality and Games 21
9. Mixed Reality / Design & Aesthetics
10. An Introduction to Design & Aesthetics 31
11. Warning: Not Suitable for Robots 33
12. Game Engineering for Hybrid Board Games 49
13. Creating Digital Gamebooks with Twine 61
14. Strategy Games as Neoliberal Historiography 79
15. The Flaneur in a Masticator 89
16. Cortana: A Digital Personal Assistant between Space Opera and Speech Recognition 101
17. Is This the Real Life? Is This just Fantasy? 111
18. Mixed Reality / Society & Culture
19. An Introduction to Society & Culture 123
20. Players Unite Legally 125
21. “As You Command” 133
22. Gender Portrayals in Videogames 145
23. Periphery: The Departure from Avatar-Sexual Characters in BioWare’s Dragon Age: Inquisition 161
24. When the Future Becomes the Present 173
25. The Case of Pokémon GO or How an AR-Game Influences Our Lives 187
26. Mixed Reality / Theory
27. An Introduction to Theory 205
28. Save Gamer 209
29. Gotta Go Fast 237
30. Mixed Reality Is Already There! 251
31. Settlement of Digital Land 259
32. Archaeology and Videogames 267
33. An Introduction to Gambling in the Context of Game Studies 281