Game Cultures: Computer Games As New Media (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies (Paperback)) - Softcover

Dovey, Jon

 
9780335213573: Game Cultures: Computer Games As New Media (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies (Paperback))
Softcover
ISBN 10: 033521357X ISBN 13: 9780335213573
Verlag: Open University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

This book introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the emerging field of game studies. Exploring games in the context of cultural studies and media studies, it analyses computer games as the most popular contemporary form of new media production and consumption.
The book:

Argues for the centrality of play in redefining reading, consuming and creating culture
Offers detailed research into the political economy of games to generate a model of new media production
Examines the dynamics of power in relation to both the production and consumption of computer games This is key reading for students, academics and industry practitioners in the fields of cultural studies, new media, media studies and game studies, as well as human-computer interaction and cyberculture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Helen W. Kennedy is Senior Lecturer and MA Award Leader in the School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol.

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Verlag
Open University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
033521357X
ISBN 13 
9780335213573
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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