Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity

ISBN-13: 9780367885359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Rob Gallagher

Opis

This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are uniquely capable of representing and exploring the effects of digitization on day-to-day life. 

Spis treści

1. Digital Subjects: Videogames, Technology and Identity

2. Datafied Subjects: Profiling and Personal Data

3. Private Subjects: Secrecy, Scandal and Surveillance

4. Beastly Subjects: Bodies and Interfaces

5. Synthetic Subjects: Horror and Artificial Intelligence

6. Mobile Subjects: Framing Selves and Spaces

7. Productive Subjects: Time, Value and Gendered Feelings

O autorze

Rob Gallagher is a postdoctoral researcher based at King’s College London, UK. As part of the Ego-Media team, his research addresses the impact of new technologies on notions of identity and practices of self-presentation. His work has appeared in Games and Culture, Film Criticism and The New Inquiry.