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

成为人类：单人科幻视频游戏中的情感人格和新兴身体

• 批准号: 2444558
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2444558
• 关键词: Become; Human; Affective; Personhood; Emergent

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.

这项研究通过对单人科幻视频游戏 (SPVG)、玩家和游戏开发者的人种学研究，探讨了“人类”/“非人类”的含义。它研究了关于人格和身体的观念如何嵌入 SPVG 并通过 SPVG 传播；在技​​术变革迅速加速的时代，塑造人们如何想象人格、人格的边界和构成关系，使这项研究成为一项紧迫而及时的干预措施。这项研究的重点是游戏如何影响对科幻世界中的人格和身体的理解，让玩家能够探索其他世界、“其他”身体和其他未来，以及游戏开发者在塑造广大人民的情感、概念和政治景观方面发挥的关键作用。该博士学位将引起人类学、媒体和文化研究、计算机以及游戏等学科的兴趣。 行业。它深入了解玩家和开发者如何沿着种族、性别、残疾人、性和技术路线构建、协商和思考人类的构建，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。