Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences

by Vorderer; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780805853223
• ISBN10: 0805853227
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory. Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences integrates communication, psychology, and technology to examine the psychological and mediated aspects of playing video games. It is the first volume to delve deeply into these aspects of computer game play. It fits squarely into the media psychology arm of entertainment studies, the next big wave in media studies. The book targets one of the most popular and pervasive media in modern times, and it will serve to define the area of study and provide a theoretical spine for future research. This unique and timely volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in media studies and mass communication, psychology, and marketing.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Contributors	xiii
1. Playing Video Games as Entertainment	1	(8)
Peter Vorderer, Jennings Bryant, Katherine M. Pieper, and René Weber
2. Designing the Experience of Interactive Play	9
Michael Sellers
I The Product
3. A Brief Biography of Computer Games	25	(18)
Henry Lowood
4. The (Computer) Games People Play	43	(14)
Barry P Smith
5. Perps, Pimps, and Provocative Clothing: Examining Negative Content Patterns in Video Games	57	(20)
Stacy Smith
6. Massively Multiplayer Online Games	77	(14)
Elaine Chan and Peter Vorderer
II Motivation and Selection
7. Why People Play Games: An Industry Perspective	91	(10)
G. Christopher Klug and Jesse Schell
8. Why Play? An Evolutionary Perspective	101	(14)
Peter Ohler and Gerhild Nieding
9. The Influence of Personality Factors on Computer Game Choice	115	(18)
Tilo Hartmann and Christoph Klimmt
10. Effectance, Self-Efficacy, and the Motivation to Play Video Games	133	(14)
Christoph Klimmt and Tilo Hartmann
11. What Attracts Children?	147	(18)
Maria von Salisch, Caroline Oppl, and Astrid Kristen
12. Adolescents and the Appeal of Video Games	165	(16)
Arthur A. Raney, Jason K. Smith, and Kaysee Baker
13. Selective Exposure to Video Games	181	(16)
Jennings Bryant and John Davies
III Reception and Reaction Processes
14. A Brief Social History of Game Play	197	(16)
Dmitri Williams
15. Video Game Uses and Gratifications as Predicators of Use and Game Preference	213	(12)
John L. Sherry, Kristen Lucas, Bradley S. Greenberg, and Ken Lachlan
16. The Role of Presence in the Experience of Electronic Games	225	(16)
Ron Tamborini and Paul Skalski
17. The Role of Music in Video Games	241	(18)
Sean M. Zehnder and Scott D. Lipscomb
18. Narrative and Interactivity in Computer Games	259	(16)
Kwan Min Lee, Namkee Park, and Seung-A Jin
19. Realism, Imagination, and Narrative Video Games	275	(16)
Michael A. Shapiro, Jorge Peña-Herborn, and Jeffrey T Hancock
20. Playing Online	291	(16)
Ann-Sofie Axelsson and Tim Regan
21. What Went Wrong With The Sims Online: Cultural Learning and Barriers to Identification in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game	307	(18)
Francis F. Steen, Patricia M. Greenfield, Mari Siân Davies, and Brendesha Tynes
IV Effects and Consequences
22. What Do We Know About Social and Psychological Effects of Computer Games? A Comprehensive Review of the Current Literature	325	(22)
Kwan Min Lee and Wei Peng
23. Aggression and Violence as Effects of Playing Violent Video Games?	347	(16)
René Weber, Ute Ritterfeld, and Anna Kostygina
24. A Theoretical Model of the Effects and Consequences of Playing Video Games	363	(16)
Katherine E. Buckley and Craig A. Anderson
25. What Can We Learn From Playing Interactive Games?	379	(20)
Debra A. Lieberman
26. Video Games for Entertainment and Education	399	(16)
Ute Ritterfeld and René Weber
27. Game Playing and Adolescents' Development	415	(14)
Kevin Durkin
Author Index	429	(14)
Subject Index	443