Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games

ISBN-13: 9781032372853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Ellis, Katie

Opis

This book explores the opportunities and challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of digital games from the perspective of three related areas: representation, access and inclusion, and community.

Spis treści

List of Contributors;  Acknowledgements;  1. Introduction: Gaming (and) Disability;  Part I: Representation;  2. A History of Disability in Video Game Character Design;  3. Dis/abling Androids: Gaming, Posthumanism, and Critical Disability Studies;  4. Outliers as Heroes: Disability, Representation, and Inclusion in Blizzard’s Overwatch;  5.  The Dis/ability of the Avatar: Vulnerability Versus the Autonomous Subject;  6. Crashing through Capitalism: Happy Wheels, Debilitation, and Disability Representation;  7. A Missile to the Face: Scarred Characters in Mass Effect 2;  8. Representations of Ability in Digital Games;  Part II: Digital Access and Design;  9. A Spectrum of Real: Augmented Reality and Social Scaffolding;  10. Towards Inclusive Game Design;  11. The Ultimate Medium for People with Disabilities? Re-Centring the Human in Virtual Reality Visions of Play, Care, and Empathy;  12. The Sociological Accessibility of Gaming;  13. A Life-Course Analysis of Third-Age Digital Game Players in China;  14. Gaming with Blindness in Audio Virtual Reality: Making BlindSide;  Part III: Inclusive Communities;  15. A (Dis-)abling Gaming Model for Playful Inclusion: Playing (Digital) Games with Persons with and without Learning Difficulties and Dis/abilities;  16. Online Games Players in Darkness: A Study of the Blind Gaming Community;  17. Pokémon Go and Urban Accessibility;  18. Crip Twitchology: You’re Already One of Us;  19. Minecraft as an Online Playground: Reframing Play and Games in a Minecraft Community for Autistic Youth