Hybrid Play

This book explores hybrid play as a site of interdisciplinary activity-one that is capable of generating new forms of mobility, communication, subjects, and artistic expression as well as new ways of interacting with and understanding the world.

The chapters in this collection explore hybrid making, hybrid subjects, and hybrid spaces, generating interesting conversations about the past, current and future nature of hybrid play. Together, the authors offer important insights into how place and space are co-constructed through play; how, when, and for what reasons people occupy hybrid spaces; and how cultural practices shape elements of play and vice versa.

A diverse group of scholars and practitioners provides a rich interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of great interest to those working in the areas of games studies, media studies, communication, gender studies, and media arts.

Introduction

Understanding Hybrid Play

Chapter One

You Start It: A dialogue with Nick Tandavanitj from Blast Theory

Chapter Two

Keeping Coherence across Thresholds: A narrative perspective on hybrid games

Chapter Three

Training Perceptions through Play: A case for building interactive autoethnographic experiences through Twine

Kristina Bell

Chapter Four

En(Twine)d: A feminist software analysis

Chapter Five

The Hybrid Agency of Hybrid Play

Chapter Six

Casual Bodies are Hybrid Bodies

Chapter Seven

Hybrid Play in Edutainment: A media archaeology approach to Math Blaster!

Chapter 8

Subjectivation in the Making: The hybrid logics of productivity and play in the University Makerspace

Chapter Nine

Haptic Play: Understanding hybrid play through Pokémon Go

Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson & Jordi Piera-Jimenez

Chapter Ten

How We Deal with Dark Souls: The aesthetic category as method

Chapter Eleven

#HushHarbors: Get Out, memes, and twitter

Chapter Twelve

"You Broke Minecraft": Hybrid play and the materialization of game spaces through mobile Minecraft

Joel Schneier