Bodily Movements in Video Game Practice: A Phenomenological Analysis of Digital Virtuality
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X241311811" target="_blank" >10.1177/1357034X241311811</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bodily Movements in Video Game Practice: A Phenomenological Analysis of Digital Virtuality
Original language description
In this article, I will present Merleau-Ponty's idea of embodiment and apply it to demonstrate two attributes of the on-screen virtual world, which suggest that the videogaming situation is projected in a contextual sense and flattened in a spatial sense. According to Merleau-Ponty, humans are primordially situated body subjects taking up the world in and through movement. He views bodily movements as correlated and solicited by situations that the body subject encounters. Building on this, I argue that, because of the projected and flattened videogaming situation, playing video games always involves an abstract attitude; and it always involves a determined and constrained pattern of bodily movements in the present, as well as limited possibilities for future movement development.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30306 - Sport and fitness sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Body & Society
ISSN
1357-034X
e-ISSN
1460-3632
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
53-75
UT code for WoS article
001401627300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85216118673