From Fiction to Reality State Continuity Across Games, Stories, and Lived Experience
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This working paper addresses the problem of cross-media state continuity: whether and how psychological states traversed in games and narrative fiction relate to states expressed in real-world behavior. Rather than assuming direct transfer or causal influence, the paper reframes cross-media continuity as a methodological question concerning the comparability and alignment of state trajectories across distinct environments. Building on prior working papers that establish games as state-revealing systems (WP-G1), visual–symbolic channels as state encoders (WP-G2), and narrative fiction as a low-resistance state simulator (WP-G3), this paper proposes a framework for analyzing continuity without collapsing differences between media contexts.
Author: Ma, Sincere Ann
Language: English
Topic: Digital Games and Media
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7117237374
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