Gaming and Grieving:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Gaming and Grieving: "
Beverley Foulks McGuire

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082577
Doc. No	:	LA126206
Call No	:	‭10.1163/21659214-BJA10014‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Beverley Foulks McGuire
Title & Author	:	Gaming and Grieving: [Article] : Digital Games as Means of Confronting and Coping with Death\ Beverley Foulks McGuire
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/3
Page No	:	326–346
Abstract	:	This paper explores structural similarities between playing a digital game and experiencing grief. The digital game Mandagon evokes a sense of loss through its game environment of grey mountainous landscapes, broken wooden scaffolds, and Tibetan temples and prayer flags in states of disrepair. It elicits feelings of disorientation and dependency as players repeatedly fall from scaffolds but ascend by using lifts or finding air bubble streams underwater. It encompasses terrestrial, corporeal, and cosmic crossings as players move through air, land, and water, as they neither inhabit nor encounter a human body, and they cross various cosmic thresholds through the course of the game. For players struggling with grief, it validates and normalizes feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and vulnerability in the wake of death and loss.
Descriptor	:	death
Descriptor	:	digital games
Descriptor	:	grief
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Sociology of Religion
Descriptor	:	Tibetan Buddhism
Descriptor	:	videogames
Descriptor	:	vulnerability
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/21659214-BJA10014‬