Digital Games After Climate Change

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Beschreibung

¿This book presents the first sustained analysis of the digital game industry¿s carbon footprint and its role in exacerbating global climate change. Identifying the ways videogames can actually help combat the climate crisis, it argues for the urgency of transitioning to a fully carbon neutral games industry, exploring the challenges and opportunities inherent in this undertaking. Beginning with an analysis of debates around the persuasive power of games, the book argues that real impact can only be achieved by focusing on the material conditions of game production ¿ by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from making, selling, and playing games, as well as the hardware used to play them. Abraham makes a compelling argument that a sustainable games industry is possible, and outlines the actions that everyone can take to reduce the harms that digital games cause to people and planet.

Über den Autor

Benjamin J. Abraham has spent the past decade researching digital media and videogames sustainability. He was previously a lecturer in digital and social media at the University of Technology Sydney, an affiliate of the Climate Justice Research Centre, and has recently moved on from academia.

Zusammenfassung

Comprehensively measures the carbon footprint of digital games industry through game development, distribution, and play

Intervenes in debates around games powers of persuasion and their ability to catalyse climate consciousness in players

Provides practical actions that the digital games industry can take to reduce its climate impact and carbon emissions

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Why Games and Climate Change?.- Chapter 2. How can games save the world?.- Chapter 3. What is an ecological game?.- Chapter 4. How much energy does it take to make a videogame.- Chapter 5. The carbon footprint of games distribution.- Chapter 6. The carbon footprint of playing games.- Chapter 7. The Periodic Table of Torture.- Chapter 8. Where to from here?.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Medienwissenschaften , Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xv 254 S. 4 s/w Illustr. 254 p. 4 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030917074
ISBN-10:	303091707X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Abraham, Benjamin J.
Auflage:	1st edition 2022
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Benjamin J. Abraham
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.03.2023
Gewicht:	0,356 kg

Artikel-ID: 126637470