Become Human: Affective Personhood and the Emergent Body in Single-Player, Science Fiction video games

这项研究通过对单人科幻视频游戏(SPVG)、玩家和游戏开发商的人种学研究，探索了什么是“人类”/“非人类”。它考察了关于人格和身体的思想是如何嵌入并通过SPVG传播的；塑造了人们如何在快速加速的技术变革中想象人格、人格边界和构成关系，使这项研究成为一项紧迫而及时的干预。这项研究的重点是游戏如何影响对人格和身体相对于科学的理解--虚构的世界允许玩家探索其他世界、“其他”身体和其他未来，以及游戏开发商在塑造大量人的情感、概念和政治景观方面所发挥的关键作用。这一博士学位将对人类学、媒体和文化研究、计算机以及游戏行业等学术学科产生兴趣。它提供了一个洞察力，玩家和开发者如何沿着种族、性别、残疾、性取向和技术路线构建、谈判和思考人类的建构，以及这些如何影响玩家和开发者对过去、现在和未来的世界观。

This research explores what it means to be "human"/"non-human" through an ethnographic study of single-player science-fiction video games (SPVGs), players and game developers. It examines how ideas about personhood and the body become embedded in and disseminated through SPVGs; shaping how people come to imagine personhood, its boundaries and constitutive relations at a time of quickly accelerating technological change, making this research an urgent and timely intervention. This research focuses on how gaming influences understandings of personhood and the body vis-à-vis science-fictional worlds which allow players to explore other worlds, "other" bodies and other futures and the pivotal role played by game developers in shaping emotional, conceptual and political landscapes for vast numbers of people.This PhD will be of interest to academic disciplines such as anthropology, media and cultural studies, and computing, as well as the gaming industry. It offers an insight into how players and developers construct, negotiate and think about constructions of the human along racialized, gendered, disabled, sexuality and technological lines as well as how these affect players and developers worldviews of pasts, presents and futures.