Communicating Spiritual Experience with Video Game Technology.

Authors

Michael Highland and Gino Yu “Communicating Spiritual Experience with Video Game Technology” deal with the aspect of experience. They stress that given the interactive nature of video game technology, it is an ideal medium for representing and communicating experience. As the game world is causally dependent on input from individual players, they evoke feelings that are urgent, direct, and personalized. Online virtual spaces therefore provide an environment for people of different faiths to come together in conversation.
Published in Volume 03.1 Being Virtually Real? Virtual Worlds from a Cultural Studies’ Perspective, ed. by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.11588/rel.2008.1.397
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Article
Keywords:
Video Games, Virtual Worlds, Online Religion, Internet, Spirituality
Language:
en
Academic discipline and sub-disciplines:
Religion
Published in Volume 03.1 Being Virtually Real? Virtual Worlds from a Cultural Studies’ Perspective, ed. by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11588/rel.2008.1.397
URN