Disability and Video Games (eBook)

Practices of En-/Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming

Markus Spöhrer, Beate Ochsner (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
357 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-34374-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection intends to fill a long overdue research gap on the praxeological aspects of the relationships between disabilities, accessibility, and digital gaming. It will focus on the question of how Game Studies can profit from a Disability Studies perspective of en-/disabling gaming and issues of disability, (in)accessibility and ableism, and vice versa. Instead of departing from the medical model of disability that informs a wide range of publications on “disabled” gaming and that preconceives users as either “able-bodied,” “normal” or as “disabled,” “deficit,” or “unable to play,” our central premise is that dis/ability is not an essential characteristic of the playing subject. We rather intend to analyze the complex infrastructures of playing, i.e., the complex interplay of heterogeneous human and non-human actors, that are en- or disabling. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Games in Context
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Games in Context
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 357 p. 35 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: digital games • Digital Media • Disability and video games • Disability Studies • Games Studies • Practice Theory
• ISBN-10: 3-031-34374-3 / 3031343743
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-34374-2 / 9783031343742