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'Return to Roots' : = An Examination of the Re-Presentations of Rurality Within Post-Apocalyptic Survival Video Games.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'Return to Roots' :/
Reminder of title:	An Examination of the Re-Presentations of Rurality Within Post-Apocalyptic Survival Video Games.
Author:	Reid, Samantha.
Description:	1 online resource (70 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04.
Subject:	Criminology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369800982

'Return to Roots' : = An Examination of the Re-Presentations of Rurality Within Post-Apocalyptic Survival Video Games.
Reid, Samantha.

'Return to Roots' :An Examination of the Re-Presentations of Rurality Within Post-Apocalyptic Survival Video Games. - 1 online resource (70 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Canada), 2016.

Includes bibliographical references

Post-apocalyptic survival (PAS) themed video games provide a virtual world that re-presents the realities of current society. Current studies have examined the existence of game culture (Aldred & Greenspan, 2011; Atkins, 2006; Kucklich, 2006), but limited analysis has focused on how these cultures relate to their real world counterparts. This study examines the re-presentations of rural culture, violence, and the production of rural stereotypes within PAS video games applying a cultural criminology foundation and elements of social control theory (Hirschi, 1969). Nine video games were examined for their setting; conflict; rural culture/stereotypes; and social structures using content analysis and coding frames. Results that PAS video games provide mixed views of rural life/culture, but skewed depictions of violence and a continual reproduction of socially constructed stereotypes.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369800982Subjects--Topical Terms:

563146
Criminology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

'Return to Roots' : = An Examination of the Re-Presentations of Rurality Within Post-Apocalyptic Survival Video Games.
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