Games and Bereavement : How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss and Grief

Harrer, Sabine

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Harrer, Sabine

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English

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Abstract

How can videogames portray love and loss? »Games and Bereavement« answers this question by analysing five videogames and conducting a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on videogames and grief and suggests a design model for videogames to include grievers into game development. Overall, she explores how videogames can be used as contemporary medium for personal storytelling.

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33769

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Media & Communications; Media; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies