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The form of game formalism

This article explores how the concept of formalism and the resulting method of formal analysis have been used and applied in the study of digital games. Three types of formalism in game studies are identified based on a review of their uses in the literature, particularly the discussion of essentialism and form that resulted from the narratology-ludology debate: 1) formalism focused on the aesthet…

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Creator

  • Willumsen, Ea C.

Subject

  • News media, journalism, publishing
  • Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication
  • Interactive, electronic Media
  • digitalization
  • playing
  • computer game
  • formalization
  • aesthetics
  • Russia
  • research
  • …
  • Technique
  • Game
  • Video game

Type of item

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Creator

  • Willumsen, Ea C.

Subject

  • News media, journalism, publishing
  • Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication
  • Interactive, electronic Media
  • digitalization
  • playing
  • computer game
  • formalization
  • aesthetics
  • Russia
  • research
  • …
  • Technique
  • Game
  • Video game

Type of item

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Providing institution

  • GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Library Cologne

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  • German Digital Library

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  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  • GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln

Creation date

  • 2018
  • 2018

Provenance

  • Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Source

  • Media and Communication, 6(2)

Identifier

  • oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/57817
  • 2183-2439
  • https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/57817
  • urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57817-1
  • https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i2.1321
  • http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/57817/ssoar-mediacomm-2018-2-willumsen-The_form_of_game_formalism.pdf?sequence=1
  • http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/72Z2IWRX2MIT5WIQGXG3NOGAFM6BYJKU

Extent

  • Seite(n): 137-144

Format

  • application/pdf

Language

  • eng
  • eng

Year

  • 2018

Providing country

  • Germany

Collection name

  • 2048425_Ag_DE_DDB_GESIS

First time published on Europeana

  • 2022-01-21T09:51:58.264Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2022-01-21T09:51:58.264Z
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