| Description |
1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies |
|
Routledge research in disability and media studies.
|
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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 Tingyou -- 17. Pokémon 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 -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
People with disabilities.
|
|
Video games.
|
|
Digital media.
|
|
Digital media
|
|
People with disabilities
|
|
Video games
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Leaver, Tama
|
|
Kent, Mike
|
| ISBN |
9781000829921 |
|
1000829928 |
|
