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Playful Materialities: The Stuff That Games Are Made Of (Studies of Digital Media Culture) by Benjamin Beil (editor); Gundolf S. Freyermuth (editor); Hanns Christian Schmidt (editor); Raven Rusch (editor); BMBF Fördervorhaben 16TOA002 (editor) is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals. They are also subject to mat

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Author

Benjamin Beil (editor); Gundolf S. Freyermuth (editor); Hanns Christian Schmidt (editor); Raven Rusch (editor); BMBF Fördervorhaben 16TOA002 (editor)

Publisher

Bielefeld University Press. ein Imprint von Roswitha Gost u. Karin Werner - transcript Verlag

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783839462003

Category

social science

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Sports

Updated

2026-03-25