Playing Muslim Hero : Construction of Identity in Video Games
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Playing Muslim Hero : Construction of Identity in Video Games
Original language description
This case study analyzes three contemporary Muslim games and explores the ways in which the hero's identity, i.e. the virtual representation of the player's self, is constructed and communicated to the players. The case study is based on content analysisof these games and on interviews with their producers. The key research question of this study is how identity can be construed on the level of game play - that is through the interactive transactions between the player and the game as enabled by the game's rule system. In doing so, this study compares the different concepts of identity of three Muslim games while simultaneously analyzing how these concepts are (or are not) embedded in their game play. On a more general level, this study aims to lay down a theoretical and methodological framework for analyzing video games from the perspective of cultural and Islamic studies in particular.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Digital Religion : Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
ISBN
978-0-415-67611-3
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
136-146
Number of pages of the book
276
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London, New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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