Breaking immersion: A theoretical framework of alienated play to facilitate critical reflection on interactive media

There is a growing interest in understanding how to best represent complexity using IDNs. We conceptualize this as the aim to make players of such IDNs reflect critically on the complexity being represented. We argue that current understandings of player experience do not lend themselves to this aim...

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Main Authors: Lena Fanya Aeschbach, Klaus Opwis, Florian Brühlmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Virtual Reality
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.846490/full