Federico Alvarez Igarzábal
@federicoalvarez.bsky.social
Prof. of Digital Media & Game Studies at HBK Essen. I research the aesthetics of games and play combining theoretical and experimental approaches.
Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
Book: "Time and Space in Video Games. A Cogntive-Formalist Approach" http://bit.ly/3iiMEk8
My talk "'It was foul, and I loved it': Perverse Play in Virtual Worlds" dives into how forms of play that involve taking social risks (e.g. banter, pranks) manifest in virtual worlds and how these can devolve into deviant forms of play like trolling and griefing. 2/2
September 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My talk "'It was foul, and I loved it': Perverse Play in Virtual Worlds" dives into how forms of play that involve taking social risks (e.g. banter, pranks) manifest in virtual worlds and how these can devolve into deviant forms of play like trolling and griefing. 2/2
Link to the paper: t.co/6Q9D9FPnPq
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/44/34/e2039232024
t.co
September 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Link to the paper: t.co/6Q9D9FPnPq