Game industry professionals are frequently implementing new methods of addressing
ethical issues related to in-game toxicity and disruptive player behaviours associated with …

This book formulates a new theological approach to the study of religion in gaming. Video
games have become one of the most important cultural artifacts of modern society, both as …

The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic
experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and …

Empirical research in bioethics has developed rapidly over the past decade, but has largely
eschewed the use of technology-driven methodologies. We propose “design bioethics” as …

This study introduces the ludic ethics approach for understanding the moral deliberations of
players of online multiplayer games. Informed by a constructivist paradigm that places …

We live in a complex world, in which our existence is defined by forces that we cannot fully
comprehend, predict, nor control. This is the world of wicked problems, of which the situation …

The many impacts of increasing human populations and urban expansion on streams in the
urban environment, collectively described as the urban stream syndrome, is well …

With the development of increasingly sophisticated computer graphics, there is a continuous
growth of the variety and originality of virtual characters used in movies and games. So far …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Game studies have been an understudied area within the emerging
field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure …

Ethical gameplay can be defined as “the outcome of a game sequence in which players take
definitive choices based on moral thinking, rather than instrumental thinking.” Often moral …