Procedural religion: Methodological reflections on studying religion in video games

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Procedural religion: Methodological reflections on studying religion in video games

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Procedural religion: Methodological reflections on studying religion in video games

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50803 - Information science (social aspects)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

New Media and Society

ISSN

1461-4448

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

19

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

126-141

Kód UT WoS článku

000394086100012

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85009740842