TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pohl, Kirsten
T1  - Ethical reflection and emotional involvement in computer games
N2  - This paper focuses on the way computer games refer to the context of their formation and ask how they might stimulate the user’s understanding of the world around him. The central question is: Do computer games have the potential to inspire our reflection about moral and ethical issues? And if so, by which means do they achieve this? Drawing on concepts of the ethical criticism in literary studies as proposed by Wayne C. Booth and Martha Nussbaum, I will argue in favor of an ethical criticism for computer games. Two aspects will be brought into focus: the ethical reflection in the artifact as a whole, and the recipient’s emotional involvement. The paper aims at evaluating the interaction of game content and game structure in order to give an adequate insight into the way computer games function and affect us.
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24652
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Müller, Petra
A1  - Coppock, Patrick
A1  - Liebe, Michael
A1  - Mersch, Dieter
A1  - Bogost, Ian
A1  - Bartle, Richard
A1  - Juul, Jesper
A1  - Løvlie, Anders Sundnes
A1  - Pohl, Kirsten
A1  - Schrape, Niklas
A1  - Hoffstadt, Christian
A1  - Nagenborg, Michael
A1  - Liboriussen, Bjarke
A1  - Meldgaard, Betty Li
A1  - Günzel, Stephan
A1  - Ljungström, Mattias
A1  - Jennett, Charlene
A1  - Cox, Anna L.
A1  - Cairns, Paul
A1  - Mukherjee, Souvik
A1  - Pinchbeck, Dan
A1  - Glashüttner, Robert
ED  - Günzel, Stephan
ED  - Liebe, Michael
ED  - Mersch, Dieter
T1  - Conference proceedings of The Philosophy of Computer Games 2008
N2  - This first volume of the DIGAREC Series holds the proceedings of the conference “The Philosophy of Computer Games”, held at the University of Potsdam from May 8-10, 2008. The contributions of the conference address three fields of computer game research that are philosophically relevant and, likewise, to which philosophical reflection is crucial. These are: ethics and politics, the action-space of games, and the magic circle. All three topics are interlinked and constitute the paradigmatic object of computer games: Whereas the first describes computer games on the outside, looking at the cultural effects of games as well as on moral practices acted out with them, the second describes computer games on the inside, i.e. how they are constituted as a medium. The latter finally discusses the way in which a border between these two realms, games and non-games, persists or is already transgressed in respect to a general performativity.
T3  - DIGAREC Series - 01 
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20072
SN  - 978-3-940793-49-2
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -