Mixed Realism - 9780816689439

Mixed RealismVideogames and the Violence of Fiction\nAuthor(s): Timothy J. Welsh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816689439, 978-0816689439\nSynopsis\nMixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences of immersion. His innovative methodology offers a new understanding of the expanding role of virtuality in contemporary life.\n\nTodays wired culture is a mixed reality, conducted as exchanges between virtual and material contexts. We make balance transfers at an ATM, update Facebook timelines, and squeeze in sessions of Angry Birds on the subway. However, the virtual is still frequently figured as imaginary, as opposed to real. The vision of 1990s writers of a future that would pit virtual reality against actual reality has never materialized, yet it continues to haunt cultural criticism. Our ongoing an.