Between Empirical and Alternative Worlds: Board Games, Players and the Politics of Emotional Immersion
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One of the most significant current discussions in Utopian Studies and Science-Fiction Studies is the idea of Singularity, described by Vernor Vinge in the article “The Coming Technological Singularity: How To Survive in the Post-Human Era” (1993) as “the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence” (Vinge, 1993: 12). The concept of singularity is central to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) as well as to the adaptive texts of the popular television series.
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For instance, it has been widely reported how players form meaningful – even emotional – ties to other players (e.g. Koster, 1998). Equally well-studied are phenomena such as identity play (Turkle, 1997), personality types of players (Yee, 2001), discrepancies between apparent game goals and actual player behaviour (Jakobsson & Taylor, 2003), the formation and negotiation of norms, the politics...
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تاریخ انتشار 2015