Video Gaming in Science Fiction

A Critical Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4766-6637-2
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

Reihe: Studies in Gaming

As video gaming and video gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. In this examination of how video gaming and video gaming culture are depicted in science fiction, Jason Barr examines how preconceived, media-fueled paranoia about video gaming, first formed almost fifty years ago, still resonate in modern science fiction prose. This works reveals how the negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have trickled through mainstream thought through the years and still dominate science fiction and almost every discussion or depiction of modern video gamers in media and entertainment. As a result, faithful and honest portrayals of gamers and gaming are still wanting, even in the “forward thinking” worlds of science fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barr, Jason

Kapell, Matthew Wilhelm

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia.