Gaming Disability
Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2022
274 pages
978-1-000-82992-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the opportunities and challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of digital games from the perspective of three related areas: representation, access and inclusion, and community.
Drawing on key concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital games. Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokemon Go. The book asks how game developers can attempt to represent diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as examples.
A significant collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, this volume will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game design and development, internet, visual, cultural, communication and media studies, as well as disability studies.
Drawing on key concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital games. Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokemon Go. The book asks how game developers can attempt to represent diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as examples.
A significant collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, this volume will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game design and development, internet, visual, cultural, communication and media studies, as well as disability studies.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
4 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-82992-1 (9781000829921)
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Katie Ellis | Tama Leaver | Mike Kent
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Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games
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12/2022
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Katie Ellis | Tama Leaver | Mike Kent
Gaming Disability
Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games
Book
12/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Katie Ellis is a Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Australia. Her research is located at the intersection of media access and representation and engages with government, industry, and community to ensure actual benefits for real people with disability.
Tama Leaver is a Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University. He is President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), a regular media commentator, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.
Mike Kent is Discipline Lead for the Curtin iSchool and Professor at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. Mike's research and writing focus on the overlapping areas of disability, social media, and digital communications.
Tama Leaver is a Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University. He is President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), a regular media commentator, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.
Mike Kent is Discipline Lead for the Curtin iSchool and Professor at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. Mike's research and writing focus on the overlapping areas of disability, social media, and digital communications.
Content
List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Gaming (and) Disability; Part I: Representation; 2. A History of Disability in Video Game Character Design; 3. Dis/abling Androids: Gaming, Posthumanism, and Critical Disability Studies; 4. Outliers as Heroes: Disability, Representation, and Inclusion in Blizzard's Overwatch; 5. The Dis/ability of the Avatar: Vulnerability Versus the Autonomous Subject; 6. Crashing through Capitalism: Happy Wheels, Debilitation, and Disability Representation; 7. A Missile to the Face: Scarred Characters in Mass Effect 2; 8. Representations of Ability in Digital Games; Part II: Digital Access and Design; 9. A Spectrum of Real: Augmented Reality and Social Scaffolding; 10. Towards Inclusive Game Design; 11. The Ultimate Medium for People with Disabilities? Re-Centring the Human in Virtual Reality Visions of Play, Care, and Empathy; 12. The Sociological Accessibility of Gaming; 13. A Life-Course Analysis of Third-Age Digital Game Players in China; 14. Gaming with Blindness in Audio Virtual Reality: Making BlindSide; Part III: Inclusive Communities; 15. A (Dis-)abling Gaming Model for Playful Inclusion: Playing (Digital) Games with Persons with and without Learning Difficulties and Dis/abilities; 16. Online Games Players in Darkness: A Study of the Blind Gaming Community; 17. Pokemon Go and Urban Accessibility; 18. Crip Twitchology: You're Already One of Us; 19. Minecraft as an Online Playground: Reframing Play and Games in a Minecraft Community for Autistic Youth
