Whether gaming has a beneficial or detrimental effect on young people's lives is a defining
feature in both the research and the public discussion of youth digital gaming. In this …

Despite discoverability and prominence emerging as crucial to contemporary industry and
policy debates in relation to online and internet-distributed television, there remains …

This book explores transmedia dynamics in various facets of fiction and nonfiction
transmedia studies. Moving beyond the presentation/definition of transmediality as a field of …

The Dynamic Game Character: Definition, Construction, and Challenges in a Character Ecology
Page 1 The Dynamic Game Character: Definition, Construction, and Challenges in a Character …

The aim of this study is to discuss the potential ethical implications of the fictionalization of
historical events represented across multiple media platforms–under the powerful umbrella …

Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential
series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by …

Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional
persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game …

The editors have gathered a distinguished group of international scholars working at the
interstices of comics studies and game studies to explore two interrelated areas of inquiry …

This chapter traces an overview of the evolution of the research on Intermedial Studies in the
last two decades. It expands the research presented in the InTech volume Comparative …

Murray, J.(1997). Hamlet on the holodeck. The MIT Press. Nakamura, L.(2009). Don't hate
the player, hate the game: The racialization of labor in World of Warcraft. Critical Studies in …