Examining the evolution of gaming and its impact on social, cultural, and political perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Yang, Yowei Kang -- Bobo Dolls, Red Herrings, and Millennial Needs : Socialization within a Culture of Digital Expediency, Expectations of Freedom of Speech without Bounds / Caroline Crawford -- Memories in and of Games Played : Memories of Game Play, In-game Memories, and Memory as a Form of Time Travel in Games / Frances Van Scoy -- Toward Broader Definitions of "Video Games" : Shifts in Narrative, Player Goals, Subject Matter, and Digital Play Environments / Lucas Jensen, Daisyane Barreto, Keri Valentine -- Telling Tales with Technology : Remediating Folklore and Myth through the Videogame Alan Wake / Dawn Stobbart -- "There are No Observers Here" : The Video Game Gaze in Outlast (2013) and Outlast: Whistleblower (2014) / Hazel Monforton -- The Game Space of Dear Esther and Beyond : Perspective Shift and the Subversion of Player Agency / Harrington Weihl -- Apportioned Commodity Fetishism and the Transformative Power of Game Studies / Judd Ruggill, Ken McAllister, Tobias Conradi, Steven Conway, Jennifer deWinter, Chris Hanson, Carly Kocurek, Kevin Moberly, Randy Nichols, Rolf Nohr, Marc Ouellette -- Co-Creation and the Distributed Authorship of Video Games / Stephanie Jennings -- She Designs Therefore She Is? …”

Organ by Sufi Abqari, Ebriza Aminnudin, Eqbal Mohaydeen, Ninie Othman