Procedural religion: Methodological reflections on studying religion in video games

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816649923" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816649923</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816649923" target="_blank" >10.1177/1461444816649923</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Procedural religion: Methodological reflections on studying religion in video games

Original language description

The article discusses the methodological aspects of studying religion in video games. It examines the concept of procedural religion, that is, the representations of religion via rule-systems in games, and investigates how we can formally analyze these representations. The article uses Petri Nets, a mathematical and a graphical tool for modeling, analyzing, and designing discrete event systems, in order to analyze how religion is represented in the rule-systems of two different mainstream video gamesAge of Empires II, developed in the United States, and Quraish, developed in Syria. By comparing the rule-systems of both games, the article provides empirical evidence on how game rule-systems migrate between cultures and influence local game production by providing local game developers with pre-defined formulas for expressing their ideas while simultaneously limiting the scope of such expression with schematized patterns. On a more general level, the article discusses what rule-system analysis can tell us about video games as cultural and religious artifacts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50803 - Information science (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

New Media and Society

ISSN

1461-4448

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

126-141

UT code for WoS article

000394086100012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85009740842