William Sims Bainbridge

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Faith Versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming

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Produktbeschreibung

William Bainbridge contends that the worlds of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games provide a new perspective on the human quest, one that combines the arts and simulates most aspects of real life. The quests in gameworlds also provide meaning for human action, in terms of narratives about achieving goals by overcoming obstacles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780199935833
• ISBN-10: 0199935831
• Artikelnr.: 36692953

Autorenporträt

William Sims Bainbridge is a prolific and influential sociologist of religion, science and popular culture, and serves as co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the NSF as well as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Disbelief
Chapter 2: The Culture Game
Chapter 3: Deities
Chapter 4: Souls
Chapter 5: Priests
Chapter 6: Shrines
Chapter 7: Magic
Chapter 8: Morality
Chapter 9: Cults
Chapter 10: Death
Chapter 11: Quests
Appendix: The Gameworlds