RT Article
T1 Non-religious Players Asking Big Questions: Video Game Worlds Affording Affinities of Meaningful Encounters
JF Journal of religion and popular culture
VO 33
IS 2
SP 69
OP 88
A1 Rautalahti, Heidi
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1765257166
AB The article examines player narratives on meaningful encounters with video games by using an argumentative qualitative interview method. Data gathered among Finnish adult video game players represents narratives of important connections in personal lives, affinities that the article analyzes as further producing three distinctive themes on meaningful encounters. Utilizing a study-of-religion framework, the article discusses meaning making and emerging ways of meaningfulness connected to the larger discussion on the “big questions” that are asked, explored, and answered in popular culture today. Non-religious players talk about intricate and profound contemplations in relation to game memories, highlighting how accidental self-reflections in mundane game worlds frame a continuing search for self.
K1 Finnish players
K1 adult players
K1 argumentative qualitative interview method
K1 big questions
K1 Enchantment
K1 life events
K1 Meaning Making
K1 video game
DO 10.3138/jrpc.2020-0012