Provides an accessible overview of an emerging field for students, teachers, practitioners, and industry professionals alikeIntroduces readers to differing and provocative perspectives across scientific, technological, and artistic fields/domains through a novel interdisciplinary approach
Bridges academic research, art, play, media studies, cultural/social science, and practical approaches
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Autorentext
Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), and member of the Center for Computer Games Research (game.itu.dk) and the Pervasive Interaction Technology Lab (PitLab, pitlab.itu.dk). Daniel writes, composes, codes, builds, performs and plays. He is interested in artistic, analytic, explorative, critical and subversive approaches to and practices of play. Discourses he is specifically interested in, are play and materiality, play and learning, and critical play.

Inhalt
From the Contents: Introduction: The subversive nature of play/games.- Part I Play,learning and reflection.- Questions Over Answers: Reflective Game Design.- The Phylogeny of Play.- Bodies in Play: Shifting between the virtual and physical body as a play element.- Blending & Blurring: Experiences with a Political Art Game.- Part II System,society,empowerment.