Garry Young: 4 books

Book cover of Transcending Taboos

Transcending Taboos

A Moral and Psychological Examination of Cyberspace

by Garry Young, Monica Whitty
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012

Cyberspace is composed of a multitude of different spaces where users can represent themselves in many divergent ways. Why in a video game, is it more acceptable to murder or maim than rape? After all, in each case, it is only pixels that are being assaulted. This book avoids wrestling with the common...
Book cover of Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma

Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma

Examining the Moral and Psychological Differences between Virtual Murder and Virtual Paedophilia

by Garry Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

This book explores the gamer’s dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral permission of virtual murder would also appear...
Book cover of Ethics in the Virtual World

Ethics in the Virtual World

The Morality and Psychology of Gaming

by Garry Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

Ethics in the Virtual World examines the gamer's enactment of taboo activities in the context of both traditional and contemporary philosophical approaches to morality. The book argues that it is more productive to consider what individuals are able to cope with psychologically than to determine whether...
Book cover of ANTHOLOGIE DU METAL
by Garry Sharpe Young
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Après le tome 1 de l’Anthologie du metal qui retraçait le parcours des pionniers de la scène, du thrash, de la NWOBHM, du death ou encore du black metal, ce second volume s’intéresse plus particulièrement au doom, au power metal, au metal symphonique, au néo-metal, aux avant-gardistes, ainsi...
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