New Virtual Ethics (eBook)

Interconnectedness and Interrelationality in Videogames

Schallegger Rene Reinhold Schallegger (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
238 Seiten
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4766-5444-7 (ISBN)

Infos

We are witnessing the collapse of the postwar consensus, the implosion of the caring society. In times of social, economic, and political insecurity, egotism spreads. Many popular videogames follow a logic of consumerist self-gratification and self-empowerment. Deeply political, videogames contribute to the transformation of players, causing a need for change in what game designers do and how and why they do it. Awareness of the socio-political and cultural contexts can be promoted by the mainstream videogame market for critical active participation. This book focuses on the need for individual self-realization in Western societies and how it manifests in the various dimensions of videogames. Videogames remind us that we can never be isolated in a world defined by complexity and interlaced systems. Connecting videogames and new Neo-Kantian virtual ethics builds upon notions of agency, mutual respect, and obligation. This addresses humans in their entirety as thinking, acting, and feeling agents through engagement, immersion, and involvement.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
• ISBN-10: 1-4766-5444-1 / 1476654441
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-5444-7 / 9781476654447