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»Dude, How Much Health Do You Have Left?«: On Masculinity and the Rationalization of Health in Video Games

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dc.contributor.editorGörgen, Arno
dc.contributor.editorSimond, Stefan Heinrich
dc.creatorRogers, Brandon
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-30T10:50:06Z
dc.date.available2020-10-30T10:50:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractMany video games reinforce a rationalizing logic of self-care through the use of health management tools like hit points and health bars. This paper attempts to problematize the quantification of health in games by situating it at the nexus of objective rationality and hegemonic masculinity. I argue that this assemblage not only necessitates the conditions of existence for hit points and status effects, but also embeds the mechanisms with biopolitical scripts that (re)produce the ideal masculine biocitizen. This rationalization of health in games reinforces hegemonic practices of biomedicine that aim to preserve masculinity rather than improve overall health. Hit points and health bars therefore reproduce masculine ways of seeing that contribute to masculine health practices in the everyday world and consequentially men’s health disparities.en
dc.identifier.doidoi:https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839453285-016
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14967
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15956
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14861
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subjectGesundheitde
dc.subjectMännlichkeitde
dc.subjectVideospielde
dc.subjecthealthen
dc.subjectself-trackingen
dc.subjectmasculinityen
dc.subjectvideo gameen
dc.subject.ddcddc:794
dc.subject.workFALLOUT 76
dc.title»Dude, How Much Health Do You Have Left?«: On Masculinity and the Rationalization of Health in Video Gamesen
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:07:38
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.14361/9783839453285-016
local.source.booktitleKrankheit in Digitalen Spielen. Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen
local.source.epage344
local.source.spage325
local.subject.wikidataQ54497595

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