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Is This Trauma Yours or Mine? Empathy Gaps and Single-Player Videogame Experiences 这是你的创伤还是我的创伤?同理心差距和单人电子游戏体验

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2184952

N. P. Houe

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Gaming (with) Affect and Trauma: An Introduction 情感与创伤游戏简介

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2184946

Laurent Milesi

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Towards an Affective Ludo-ethics of Re-enactment: Witnessing (in) Attentat 1942 走向再现的情感卢多伦理:见证(in) attent1942

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2184951

A. Ionescu

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Emergent Narrative and Affect 突发叙事与情感

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2184947

G. Calleja

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Mind Games: Affective Ludo(bio)technologies of Fear 心灵游戏：恐惧的情感Ludo（生物）技术

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2184950

Laurent Milesi

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Pathfinding Affect: Reading Maps, Bodies and the Affective in Colonial Videogames 探路情感：阅读地图、身体和殖民地电子游戏中的情感

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2184948

Souvik Mukherjee

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Gris, Grief and the Heroine’s Journey 悲伤、悲伤与女英雄的旅程

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2184953

Poonam Chowdhury

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A Multitude of Soliloquies: On Democracy, Language, and Power in Bouchra Khalili’s Speeches Soliloquies的多元性——论Bouchra Khalili演讲中的民主、语言和权力

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2022.2156696

Susette S. Min

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Multilingualism and Racial (Re-)formation in the Contemporary U.S. Campus Novel 当代美国校园小说中的多语言与种族(重构)形成

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2022.2156694

Almas Khan

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Ngomeni, Fort Jesus: A Digo home, not a Portuguese fortress 1 恩戈梅尼，耶稣堡：迪戈的家，而不是葡萄牙的堡垒1

IF 0.3 4区社会学

Parallax Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2022.2156695

J. Kosgei

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