The dark side of game play [Texte imprimé] : controversial issues in playful environments / edited by Torill Elvira Mortensen, Jonas Linderoth, and Ashley ML Brown

Notes bibliogr.

Dark play : the aesthetics of controversial playfulness / Torill Elvira Mortensen and Jonas Linderoth -- Analyzing game controversies : a historical approach to moral panics -- And digital games / Faltin Karlsen -- Of heroes and henchmen : the conventions of killing generic -- Expendables in digital games / René Glas -- Don't forget to die : a software update is available for the death drive / Emily Flynn-Jones -- Killing digital children : design, discourse and player agency / Björn Sjöblom -- Little evils : subversive uses of children's games / Frans Mäyrä -- Darkly playing others / Miguel Sicart -- Three defences for the fourteen-inch barbed penis : darkly playing with morals, ethics and sexual violence / Ashley ML Brown -- Exploring the limits of play : a case study of representations of nazism in games / Adam Chapman and Jonas Linderoth -- Keeping the balance : morals at the dark side / Torill Elvira Mortensen -- Fabricated innocence : on how people can be lured into feel bad -- Games / Staffan Björk -- Massively multiplayer dark play : treacherous play in EVE online / Marcus Carter -- Dark play in dishonored / Kristine Jørgensen -- Sonic descents : musical dark play in survival and psychological -- Horror / Isabella van Elferen -- Boosting, glitching and modding call of duty : assertive dark play -- Manifestations, communities, pleasures and organic resilience / Alan Meades