Cover -- Contents -- 1. Homo ludens 2.0: Play, media, and identity / Valerie Frissen, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Jos de Mul & Joost Raessens -- Part I - Play -- Introduction to Part I / Valerie Frissen, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Jos de Mul & Joost Raessens -- 2. Playland: Technology, self, and cultural transformation / Kenneth J. Gergen -- 3. Spiritual play: Encountering the sacred in World of Warcraft / Stef Aupers -- 4. Playful computer interaction / Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath -- 5. Playful identity in game design and open-ended play / Menno Deen, Ben Schouten & Tilde Bekker -- 6. Breaking reality: Exploring pervasive cheating in Foursquare / René Glas -- 7. Playing with bits and bytes: The savage mind in the digital age / Valerie Frissen -- Part II - Media -- Introduction to Part II / Valerie Frissen, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Jos de Mul & Joost Raessens -- 8. Location-based mobile games: Interfaces to urban spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva & Jordan Frith -- 9. The playful use of mobile phones and its link to social cohesion / Rich Ling -- 10. Digital cartographies as playful practices / Sybille Lammes -- 11. Ludic identities and the magic circle / Gordon Calleja -- 12. Play (for) time / Patrick Crogan -- 13. Playful identity politics: How refugee games affect the player's identity / Joost Raessens -- Part III - Identity -- Introduction to Part III / Valerie Frissen, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Jos de Mul & Joost Raessens -- 14. Playing out identities and emotions / Jeroen Jansz -- 15. Playing with others: The identity paradoxes of the web as social network / Jeroen Timmermans -- 16. New media, play, and social identities / Leopoldina Fortunati -- 17. Playing life in the metropolis: Mobile media and identity in Jakarta / Michiel de Lange.

18. The conflicts within the casual: The culture and identity of casual online play / Frans Mäyrä -- 19. Afterplay / Jos de Mul -- About the authors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.