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p6cfn_v1,Decoding January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires : How (and Why) the Emotional Power of Iconic Fires Revives Ancestral Fears and Fuels Misinformation,"The fires that ravaged Los Angeles in 2025 not only caused considerable material damage: they also triggered a parallel crisis of misinformation, fueled by the strong emotional and symbolic charge that fire carries in the collective imagination. Emblematic fires - whether the Great Fire of Rome (64 CE), the Great Fire of London (1666) or Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019 - have acquired a metaphorical significance in human history that goes beyond their immediate context, highlighting profound social concerns. In Los Angeles, media coverage of the fires of 2025 intensified tensions around inequality, institutional failures and environmental justice, while the emotional dimension of the fire fostered the rapid rise of conspiracy theories. Fake news, such as the elite grabbing of resources, resonated with an American population already marked by distrust of institutions and its elites embodied by the billionaire duo Trump and Musk. What's more, the media's propensity to privilege emotional impact over factual information has only reinforced this phenomenon. To be truly effective, strategies to combat forest fire misinformation must therefore address both the emotional drivers of fire symbolism and the historical patterns that give these narratives their persuasive force. Concerted efforts by scientists (especially historians, sociologists and information and communication specialists), journalists and local players, combined with more factual communication, can help restore confidence and strengthen collective resilience. It seems essential to remember that fire in our civilization represents both an environmental threat and a powerful cultural symbol with deep-rooted roots and imagery, in order to better understand the dual crisis of fire-related ecological disasters and the misinformation that recurrently accompanies them.",2025-01-18T03:56:16.281352,2025-01-20T22:06:00.632614,2025-01-20T22:05:36.175108,,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/p6cfn,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,Collective memory; Disinformation; Los Angeles; Media framing; Social Inequalities; Symbolism; archetypes; conspiracy theories; cultural sociology; journalism; media anthropology; media sociology; myths; social anthropology; wildfires,"[""Collective memory"", ""Disinformation"", ""Los Angeles"", ""Media framing"", ""Social Inequalities"", ""Symbolism"", ""archetypes"", ""conspiracy theories"", ""cultural sociology"", ""journalism"", ""media anthropology"", ""media sociology"", ""myths"", ""social anthropology"", ""wildfires""]",Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb,"[{""id"": ""t2kbd"", ""name"": ""Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gimello-Mesplomb"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-4376-2462"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb,Art and Design; Film and Media Studies; Communication; Mass Communication; Other Film and Media Studies; Other Communication; Arts and Humanities; Social Media; Interdisciplinary Arts and Media; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Communication Technology and New Media,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca844"", ""text"": ""Art and Design""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8ac"", ""text"": ""Film and Media Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8be"", ""text"": ""Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8ce"", ""text"": ""Mass Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca96d"", ""text"": ""Other Film and Media Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca9c7"", ""text"": ""Other Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecaab4"", ""text"": ""Arts and Humanities""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecab00"", ""text"": ""Social Media""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecab2a"", ""text"": ""Interdisciplinary Arts and Media""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac48"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac70"", ""text"": ""Communication Technology and New Media""}]",https://osf.io/download/678b26dc634b29e0ba282e5f,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:19.871876
s4jzg_v1,Digital Film Consumption Beyond Legal Frameworks :  A New Form of Cinephilia? A Empirical Investigation of Unauthorized Film Access (2001-2012),"This article examines how unauthorized film access practices evolved into sophisticated forms of cultural consumption between 2001-2012, a pivotal decade marked by the fall of Napster and MegaUpload. Through empirical research, it demonstrates that these practices, rather than being mere piracy, represent emerging forms of cinephile behavior characterized by discerning taste and cultural expertise.
The study reveals that downloaders exhibit complex consumption patterns that complement rather than replace traditional cinephile practices. They maintain parallel legal consumption through theater attendance and DVD purchases, while using downloading to access rare or unavailable films that traditional distribution channels fail to provide. This ""niche cinephilia"" reflects a sophisticated taste culture rather than opportunistic consumption.
The research shows that downloaders are typically well-equipped consumers, with 56% having both high-speed internet and paid TV subscriptions. They demonstrate high levels of technical knowledge and specific film preferences, actively seeking particular titles rather than downloading randomly - 76% report knowing exactly what films they want before connecting.
Their motivations extend beyond economic factors to address market gaps, particularly regarding rare films, foreign cinema, and classic movies unavailable through legal channels. This behavior suggests an evolution in how film culture is accessed and appreciated, pointing to a more complex relationship between legal and unauthorized consumption than previously understood.
The findings indicate that these emerging practices have become normalized modes of film consumption presenting few differences from traditional cinephile behaviors. Rather than undermining film culture, they appear to be enriching it by enabling access to a broader range of cinematic works and fostering new forms of expertise and appreciation.
The study concludes that unauthorized film access represents a ""demand-driven cinephilia"" that contrasts with the ""supply-driven cinephilia"" of traditional distribution channels, reflecting broader changes in how cultural content is consumed and appreciated in the digital age.",2024-12-26T15:12:56.179950,2024-12-29T20:54:20.881212,2024-12-29T20:54:07.041865,2013-12-07T23:00:00,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/s4jzg,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,cinema audiences; cinephiles; cinephilia; cultural appropriation; cultural change; cultural consumption; cultural economics; cultural practices; cultural studies; digital cinema; digital culture; digital distribution; digital ethnography; filesharing; film access; film communities; film consumption; film culture; film downloading; film history; film studies; media anthropology; media industries; media policy; media practices; media sociology; p2p; piracy; sociology; streaming,"[""cinema audiences"", ""cinephiles"", ""cinephilia"", ""cultural appropriation"", ""cultural change"", ""cultural consumption"", ""cultural economics"", ""cultural practices"", ""cultural studies"", ""digital cinema"", ""digital culture"", ""digital distribution"", ""digital ethnography"", ""filesharing"", ""film access"", ""film communities"", ""film consumption"", ""film culture"", ""film downloading"", ""film history"", ""film studies"", ""media anthropology"", ""media industries"", ""media policy"", ""media practices"", ""media sociology"", ""p2p"", ""piracy"", ""sociology"", ""streaming""]",Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb,"[{""id"": ""t2kbd"", ""name"": ""Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gimello-Mesplomb"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-4376-2462"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb,Sociology of Culture; Film and Media Studies; Communication; Other Film and Media Studies; Other Communication; Speech and Rhetorical Studies; Arts and Humanities; Social Media; Leisure Studies; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology; Communication Technology and New Media,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8a0"", ""text"": ""Sociology of Culture""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8ac"", ""text"": ""Film and Media Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8be"", ""text"": ""Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca96d"", ""text"": ""Other Film and Media Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca9c7"", ""text"": ""Other Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056cecaa06"", ""text"": ""Speech and Rhetorical Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecaab4"", ""text"": ""Arts and Humanities""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecab00"", ""text"": ""Social Media""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecab6c"", ""text"": ""Leisure Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac48"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac6a"", ""text"": ""Sociology""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac70"", ""text"": ""Communication Technology and New Media""}]",https://osf.io/download/676d72f2af34937225433ec9,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:12.649442
zvgy2_v1,Theory Borrowing as a Process,"Communication science has a history of borrowing theories from other disciplines. Yet, this practice is often criticized. In this essay, I challenge this notion by suggesting we view it as an iterative process. In doing so, borrowing can contribute to building more robust theories. Using examples of theories that have been borrowed by communication researchers, I illustrate several challenges that are associated with theory borrowing, such as adapting a theory out of scope, neglecting assumptions, not considering alternatives, and non-replicable empirical foundations. Viewing theory borrowing as a process means continuously engaging with a theory’s parent literature and potentially contributing to it. Ultimately, I advocate for a reflective and collaborative approach to theory borrowing that fosters rigorous interdisciplinary engagement, strengthens communication theory, and extends the discipline’s impact across the social sciences.",2024-12-11T10:57:44.651085,2024-12-11T18:55:21.412181,2024-12-11T14:36:28.683252,2024-12-10T23:00:00,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/zvgy2,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,Communication; Communication Theory; Theory Borrowing; communication science,"[""Communication"", ""Communication Theory"", ""Theory Borrowing"", ""communication science""]",Jakob Henke,"[{""id"": ""wtcg8"", ""name"": ""Jakob Henke"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-4998-8366"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Jakob Henke,Communication; Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8be"", ""text"": ""Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac48"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/6759703613f26b1a8a0bc2db,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:18.937521
r796s_v1,Journalists as Reluctant Political Prophets,"This article examines the journalistic production of mediated political projections, defined as media narratives about uncertain futures in the political arena, such as anticipated outcomes and implications of elections. Despite the significance of prospective coverage in political journalism and its impact on political decision-making, there is limited understanding of journalists’ perceptions and textual expressions of political forecasting across various discursive forms, media types, and cultures. Drawing on interviews with Israeli journalists and a computational text analysis of election coverage in France, Israel, and the U.S., this study explores how journalists perceive, negotiate, and textually navigate political forecasting in their work. The findings reveal journalists’ deep ambivalence toward political forecasting and the resulting textual practices. We show how journalists attribute their engagement in forecasting to external pressures, while their reluctance stems from the inherent risks and challenges associated with political forecasting and its conflict with their journalistic identity. Journalists navigate this tension by incorporating projections into conventional factual reporting or using non-committal language. Except in data journalism, assessing the likelihood of political scenarios is uncommon. Although these patterns are observed across countries and media types, prospective coverage is more prevalent in interventionist and accommodative journalistic cultures, with the rhetoric of facticity and certitude more common in broadcast news. We argue that journalists’ reluctance to fully engage with the uncertainty of political futures limits their ability to effectively contribute to public decision-making processes in societies' navigation toward the future.",2024-12-10T08:17:01.013787,2024-12-10T10:05:41.707003,2024-12-10T10:05:06.861138,,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/r796s,No license,Computational Text Analysis; Election Coverage; In-depth Interviews; Journalists; Political Forecasting; Temporality,"[""Computational Text Analysis"", ""Election Coverage"", ""In-depth Interviews"", ""Journalists"", ""Political Forecasting"", ""Temporality""]",Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt; Tali Aharoni; Christian Baden,"[{""id"": ""ca6ku"", ""name"": ""Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0001-9268-3969"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""5vhup"", ""name"": ""Tali Aharoni"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""xtd6c"", ""name"": ""Christian Baden"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-3771-3413"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt,Communication; Social Influence and Political Communication; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Journalism Studies,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8be"", ""text"": ""Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca9c3"", ""text"": ""Social Influence and Political Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac48"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac56"", ""text"": ""Journalism Studies""}]",https://osf.io/download/6757f91ac6a4c0c3221e2bb9,0,,available,no,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:16.256968
dn3vy_v1,The ontological reality of communication: beyond field identity,"The ongoing debate over communication’s identity may appear excessive, yet it plays a crucial role by enabling exploration beyond the field, including its core object of study. In communication research, this debate serves as self-reflection, and this article argues that perceived incoherence arises less from a lack of common ground and more from an incomplete grasp of communication’s ontological reality. Drawing on Craig’s constitutive metamodel, Einstein’s reflections on scientific fundamentals, and Cooren’s concepts of materiality and sociality, this article explores the necessity for communication to address its essential nature, similar to other sciences. It concludes that an ontological turn in communication theory is essential to advance beyond current definitional debates and better comprehend how communication constitutes the social world.",2024-11-25T09:19:15.643130,2024-11-25T13:14:01.639161,2024-11-25T13:13:45.008637,2024-11-24T23:00:00,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/dn3vy,CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International,,[],Manuel Martín Algarra,"[{""id"": ""4wubk"", ""name"": ""Manuel Mart\u00edn Algarra"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-4179-2118"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Manuel Martín Algarra,Communication; Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8be"", ""text"": ""Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac48"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/67444186adb62f6ba97a4fe3,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:18.530093
8kabz_v1,Transformative Communication in Development Organisation: Strategic Engagement and Celebrity Influence,"This essay uncovers the evolving paradigm of communication for development, then with a focus on the strategic engagement of celebrity influence. Contextualised against the historical dominance of the Euro-Americentric modernisation discourse and with the multi-step communication framework, it situates celebrity engagement within a bidirectional model of information diffusion and participatory advocacy. The essay integrates the theoretical perspective with illustrative case studies to articulate the interplay between emotional resonance, mediated narratives, and public mobilisation. The findings reveal both the potential of celebrity influence to amplify development initiatives and the challenges posed by sensationalism and skepticism. Ultimately, it advances a call for strategic alignment between academic inquiry and institutional praxis, advocating for the positive celebrity influence to achieve cogent policy change in international development.",2024-11-24T14:36:52.414027,2024-11-26T09:44:56.902423,2024-11-26T09:23:06.050861,,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/8kabz,CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International,celebrity; communication for development; development organisation,"[""celebrity"", ""communication for development"", ""development organisation""]",Tao Louie Xu,"[{""id"": ""6x73t"", ""name"": ""Tao Louie Xu"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-0510-3343"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Tao Louie Xu,Communication; Mass Communication; Social Media; International and Intercultural Communication; Critical and Cultural Studies; Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8be"", ""text"": ""Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8ce"", ""text"": ""Mass Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecab00"", ""text"": ""Social Media""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecab15"", ""text"": ""International and Intercultural Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac2c"", ""text"": ""Critical and Cultural Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac48"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/67433a0cca3a0c559ffb576a,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:19.420395
bn4gw_v1,Brokerage,"Brokerage connects actors in a social structure to facilitate access, exchange and flow of goods, information, opportunities, or knowledge. Brokers are socially embedded in communities and strategically situated between disparate groups, and they generate value through bridging connections and mediating social, political, and economic interactions. The dynamics of brokerage are specific to the political context where it operates, and is responsive to the changing media ecosystem, especially with the rise of digital media and networked sociality. While the concept is in its infancy in political communication, existing accounts of brokerage exemplify its theoretical relevance in facilitating strategic relations in elections and partisan politics, policy and conflict resolution, social movement, and global communication flows. These works illustrate the potential of brokerage as a communicative act in not only facilitating transactions but also instigating transformation through the brokers’ strategic exercise of agency.",2024-09-17T00:33:33.152525,2024-09-17T18:22:41.215854,2024-09-17T18:22:21.603493,,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/bn4gw,CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International,brokerage; communication flows; election; policy; political communication; political intermediaries; social movement,"[""brokerage"", ""communication flows"", ""election"", ""policy"", ""political communication"", ""political intermediaries"", ""social movement""]",Fatima Gaw; Cheryll Ruth Soriano,"[{""id"": ""d65ay"", ""name"": ""Fatima Gaw"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""jp74w"", ""name"": ""Cheryll Ruth Soriano"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-3228-1065"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Fatima Gaw,Communication; Social Influence and Political Communication; Arts and Humanities; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Communication Technology and New Media,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8be"", ""text"": ""Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca9c3"", ""text"": ""Social Influence and Political Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecaab4"", ""text"": ""Arts and Humanities""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac48"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac70"", ""text"": ""Communication Technology and New Media""}]",https://osf.io/download/66e8d67b4c1b34fa65ec9cfa,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:16.784354
8gepj_v1,"Mapping globalised Chinese webnovels: Genre blending, cultural hybridity, and the complexity of transcultural storytelling","Recent years have seen a significant surge in the global popularity of Chinese webnovels as an emerging form of participatory transcultural storytelling. This research combines computational and interpretive textual analysis to map the cultural features embedded in webnovel content, aiming to identify the genre elements, common lexicon, and story themes of 4040 translated Chinese webnovels on global platforms. The analysis shows the hybridisation of Chinese cultures, digital cultures, and genre fiction elements in webnovel storytelling, contributing to the growing spectrum of diverse voices in international self-publishing. Simultaneously, webnovels depict a varied mosaic of imagined China, based on both cultural sharing and nonsharing within today's complex Chinese society and beyond the notion of ‘Chineseness’ rooted in common heritage or official values, amplifying diverse perspectives like subcultures and resistances in transcultural storytelling. While webnovels bear witness to China's cultural outreach and digital prowess converging in a new storytelling form, this research posits that their cultural production remains bound within a material process where borderless digital cultures collide with the imposed boundaries of platformed publishing and government control.",2024-09-12T11:00:40.226413,2024-09-12T17:35:21.681864,2024-09-12T17:11:20.939318,,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/8gepj,CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International,digital publishing; fanfiction; popular literature; romance; soft power; transcultural; transmedia storytelling; webnovels,"[""digital publishing"", ""fanfiction"", ""popular literature"", ""romance"", ""soft power"", ""transcultural"", ""transmedia storytelling"", ""webnovels""]",Xiang Ren,"[{""id"": ""g48c6"", ""name"": ""Xiang Ren"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-4332-2478"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Xiang Ren,Arts and Humanities,"[{""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecaab4"", ""text"": ""Arts and Humanities""}]",https://osf.io/download/66e2c9e6e0471d071fc05b20,0,,,,null,,2025-04-09T21:06:13.034271
87bsz_v1,Limited Capacity Model,"Participating in the political process requires citizens to continuously process large amounts of highly complex information, but the human brain is only capable of attending to a small fraction of the information present in the environment at any given time. These limitations necessitate that individuals selectively allocate their attention among a nearly infinite number of messages simultaneously vying for attention. As such, understanding how, when, and why individuals direct their attention to political messages has long been a central point of inquiry in political communication research. In this entry, we review extant theories and models that articulate the capacity limitations on human attention and the factors that motivate individuals to allocate their attentional capacity to certain messages over others. We focus especially on aspects of the attentional process that deviate from assumptions of rationality, highlighting the relevance of these attentional biases for understanding political communication in an increasingly algorithmically-mediated media environment.",2024-09-05T15:47:35.076232,2024-09-05T23:38:21.924781,2024-09-05T23:37:48.623217,,,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/87bsz,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,attention; media; political communication,"[""attention"", ""media"", ""political communication""]",Jacob T. Fisher; Chen (Crystal) Chen; Jay Jennings,"[{""id"": ""n49b8"", ""name"": ""Jacob T. Fisher"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-2968-2557"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""2e5pw"", ""name"": ""Chen (Crystal) Chen"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""ebxk3"", ""name"": ""Jay Jennings"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Jacob T. Fisher,Communication; Mass Communication; Political Science; Cognition and Perception; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Psychology,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8be"", ""text"": ""Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8ce"", ""text"": ""Mass Communication""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac1a"", ""text"": ""Political Science""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac1e"", ""text"": ""Cognition and Perception""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac48"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecac68"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}]",https://osf.io/download/66d9d2a26d968bbc801eae08,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:20.914730
z2rma_v1,Die Ludonarrative Architektur von Computerspielen. Eine Untersuchung von Survival-Computerspielen aus Perspektive des Game Designs,"The aim of the dissertation is to make game design patterns accessible for analysis in the field of media culture studies. Game design patterns or game architectures as analytical tools are contrasted with the chronically fuzzy genre concept of game studies. In the context of this work, they serve as a precise and fine-meshed description of the gameplay of computer games. It is argued that game design patterns are better suited to genre classification than game mechanics, which remain an underdeveloped category in the genre theories of computer game research. Certain formations of game design patterns can be summarized into groups that are stable across several individual titles and can be referred to as game architecture with Jonathan Lessard. A further aim of the work is an interdisciplinary linking of game studies approaches, which are primarily characterized by media culture and literary studies, with the practical methods and models of game design. At the beginning of the thesis, the structure, methodology and corpus of the dissertation are presented. A short working definition of survival computer games and a brief differentiation from survival horror games and similar theoretical positions is given. This is followed by a research overview of the genre debate within game studies and a brief overview of characteristics that are often used to typify computer games. Next is a chapter that describes in detail how genres can be viewed from a design perspective and introduces the concepts of game design patterns and game architectures and develops them as analytical tools. It argues that existing genre theories cannot adequately describe the gameplay of game mechanics. Furthermore, approaches from media culture studies and design theory are brought together here by relating and comparing the concepts of game architecture and genre. The relationship between game design patterns and formal-aesthetic and thematic characteristics is also examined in more detail. Based on this, an analysis of the game DayZ (2012) is carried out, which is regarded as a prototype for survival computer games in the context of the dissertation. As a necessary preliminary work, the concept of realism is brought into focus and made usable for the analysis of computer games. In particular, the problems of the concept of realism are discussed and the degree of abstraction of simulations is explained. It is argued that computer games are considered plausible if they avoid ostranenie and are thematically consistent. Using DayZ as an example, the model of ludonarrative architecture for survival computer games is then developed, which is characterized by the fact that on the one hand it establishes the game architecture of the game and on the other hand is also dedicated to the stylized simulation of survival as well as prominent aesthetic and narrative features. This is followed by three detailed analyses of the games StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty (2010), Left 4 Dead (2008) and Frostpunk (2018), whose respective ludonarrative architectures are set up and compared with that of DayZ. The thesis concludes with a conclusion that summarizes the results of the previous chapters and discusses the case studies once again. It also critically discusses methodological problems in conducting the study as well as game design patterns in general and provides an outlook for further research.",2024-06-21T11:37:42.531796,2024-06-23T14:05:41.952479,2024-06-23T14:05:30.682181,2023-05-09T22:00:00,https://doi.org/10.17192/z2024.0043,mediarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/z2rma,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,cinematic realism; dissertation; filmic realism; game architecture; game design patterns; game studies; genre; plausibility; prototype; realism; survival; survival games; zombie,"[""cinematic realism"", ""dissertation"", ""filmic realism"", ""game architecture"", ""game design patterns"", ""game studies"", ""genre"", ""plausibility"", ""prototype"", ""realism"", ""survival"", ""survival games"", ""zombie""]",Michael Mosel,"[{""id"": ""qm6cj"", ""name"": ""Michael Mosel"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-0263-8441"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Michael Mosel,Film and Media Studies; Other Film and Media Studies; Arts and Humanities,"[{""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca8ac"", ""text"": ""Film and Media Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240d954be81056ceca96d"", ""text"": ""Other Film and Media Studies""}, {""id"": ""584240da54be81056cecaab4"", ""text"": ""Arts and Humanities""}]",https://osf.io/download/6675660d993d150173048ba7,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T20:50:14.935257