Gaming disability : disability perspectives on contemporary video games /

"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 togethe...

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Other Authors: Ellis, Katie, 1978- (Editor), Kent, Mike, 1969- (Editor), Leaver, Tama (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023
Series:Routledge research in disability and media studies
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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
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