Representations of Poverty in Videogames

By Adam M. Crowley

Chapter 1: Introduction

Game Studies and Poverty

Poverty in Woke Game Studies Discourse

Critical Contexts of Poverty in Game Studies Scholarship

Virtual Poverty and Congruence

Authoritative Dispatches from the Field

Specifying Poverty for Future Game Studies Investigations

The Player's Act of Play: Slumming as Transmedia Context

The Intersection of Player and Played: Slumming in Skyrim

The Intersection of Player and Played: Thematizing Poverty

Chapter 2: Relative Poverty and Slumming Simulations

Behavior Scripts and Ethical Imperatives

Specifying Poverty for Analysis: Relative Poverty

Relative Poverty in World of Warcraft

Contextualizing World of Warcraft's Poverty Theme

The Player's Acts of Play: Relative Poverty and Reordered Experience

World of Warcraft Poverty Thematics

Beyond the Slums: The Player's Act of Play as Context for Poverty Thematics

Chapter 3: Player Identity and the Conditions of Play

Playing at Poor

The Impoverished at Play: Assessing the Technomasculine

Representing Impoverished Communities in Videogames

Chapter 4: The Player and Game Studies' Rhetoric of Inclusion

The Player's Acts of Play: Identity in Gaming Cultures

Contexts for Play: Identity and Poverty

A Struggle for Definition: Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Games Research

A Struggle for Terminology: First Person Scholar and "Middle State" Publications

A Struggle for Recognition: Not Your Mama's Gamer Transition from Blog to Journal

Chapter 5: Human Subjects and Digital Poverty

Game Studies: The Player and Played

Game Studies: Addressing the Proper Subject - Opportunities for Growth

Game Studies' Post-Modern Economics: The Avant-Pop Rides Again

Game Studies' Post-Modern Economics: From Avant-Pop to Social Realism

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Literary Contexts for Digital Slumming

Literary Studies: Game Studies' Coalmine Canary

Gentility and the intersection of Game Studies and Literary Studies

An Aesthetic Tradition for Literary Considerations of The Player's Act of Play

A Point of Departure for Literary Considerations of The Player's Act of Play: "Lore"

Assessing Lore's Significance to Relative Poverty

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031001435
• ISBN13: 9783031001437
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"