Playing (Game-)Identities

Ronja Weidemann

doi:10.5771/9783828850675

Summary

As a central element of mediation between players and the game world, the avatar is at the centre of many video games. In this research work, Ronja Weidemann uses the example of Let's Plays to examine the extent to which the relationship between avatars, players and their community can be explained by theories of identity or identity processes. To this end, she analyses and interprets the verbalised gaming experiences of the Let's Players, especially with regard to their changes between the personal pronouns "I", "you", "she"/"he" and "we". In doing so, the author takes into account various positions from games studies, sociology and psychoanalysis.

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Publication year: 2023
Publication date: 19.09.2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8288-4931-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8288-5067-5
Publisher: Tectum, Baden-Baden
Series: Young Academics: Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Volume: 3
Language: German
Pages: 128
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - XII
1. Einleitung No access Pages 1 - 4
1. 2.1 Avatar-Spieler:in-Beziehung – zentrale Konzepte No access
1. 3.1 Let’s Plays – Kontextualisierung und Problemdiskussion No access
2. 3.2 Die Analysegegenstände – What Remains of Edith Finch, Life is Strange, Until Dawn No access
3. 3.3 Exkurs: Immersion, Involvement und Flow No access
1. 1. 4.1.1 Selbstpräsentation No access
  2. 4.1.2 Distanzierung No access
  3. 4.1.3 Wertekonstellationen und -entscheidungen No access
2. 1. 4.2.3 Interaktion No access
  2. 4.2.4 Parasoziale Interaktion und Beziehung No access
  3. 4.2.5 Soziale Spiegelungsprozesse No access
3. 1. 4.3.1 Interaktivität: Gemeinsames Handeln No access
  2. 4.3.2 Narrative Identität – Vergessen und Erinnern No access
  3. 4.3.3 Körperbild und Körperschema No access
5. Fazit & Ausblick No access Pages 105 - 108
6. Literatur No access Pages 109 - 112
7. Ludografie No access Pages 113 - 114
1. 8.1 What Remains of Edith Finch – Let’s Plays No access
2. 8.2 Life is Strange – Let’s Plays No access
3. 8.3 Until Dawn – Let’s Plays No access
1. 1. Domtendo 2018 #26, [00:05:18 – 00:06:17]: No access
  2. Gronkh 2015 #0402, [00:33:32 – 00:35:51]: No access
  3. LittleConfusedBrain 2015 #0403, [00:00:11 – 00:01:00]: No access
  4. Pandorya 2015 #26, [00:09:08 – 00:11:03]: No access
2. 1. Domtendo 2018 #40, [00:04:27 – 00:05:17] / [00:05:39 – 00:06:00] / [00:06:36 – 00:07:08]: No access
  2. Gronkh 2015 #0507, [00:15:22 – 00:19:10]: No access
  3. Pandorya 2015 #40, [00:19:03 – 00:22:50]: No access
Danksagung No access Pages 127 - 128