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Chris Goto-Jones

Virtual Ninja Manifesto

Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,2 cm / 14,5 cm / 1,3 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781783489817

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174 Seiten
September 2016
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Draws on the traditions of the martial arts to ask whether playing violent videogames actually transform gamers into better people.

Chris Goto-Jones is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities at the University of Victoria. He is also a Professorial Research Fellow of SOAS, University of London.

Introduction: (Video)games and violence/1. Violence and Self-Cultivation: Embodied Orientalism/2. Digital Embodiment and the Dojo/3. The Virtual Ninja Manifesto/4. From Techno-Orientalism to Gamic Orientalism/Conclusion: Videogames and Emancipation/Bibliography/Index