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Playing with Videogames

Author : James Newman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134173008
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis Playing with Videogames by : James Newman

Download or read book Playing with Videogames written by James Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing with Videogames documents the richly productive, playful and social cultures of videogaming that support, surround and sustain this most important of digital media forms and yet which remain largely invisible within existing studies. James Newman details the rich array of activities that surround game-playing, charting the vibrant and productive practices of the vast number of videogame players and the extensive 'shadow' economy of walkthroughs, FAQs, art, narratives, online discussion boards and fan games, as well as the cultures of cheating, copying and piracy that have emerged. Playing with Videogames offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the meanings of videogames and videogaming within the contemporary media environment.

Engaging with Videogames: Play, Theory and Practice

Author : Dawn Stobbart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848882955
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Book Synopsis Engaging with Videogames: Play, Theory and Practice by : Dawn Stobbart

Download or read book Engaging with Videogames: Play, Theory and Practice written by Dawn Stobbart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Engaging with Videogames focuses on the multiplicity of lenses through which the digital game can be understood, particularly as a cultural artefact, economic product, educational tool, and narrative experience. Game studies remains a highly interdisciplinary field, and as such tends to bring together scholars and researchers from a wide variety of fields and analytical practices. As such, this volume includes explorations of videogames from the fields of literature, visual art, history, classics, film studies, new media studies, phenomenology, education, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, as well as game studies, design, and development. The chapters are organised thematically into four sections focusing on educational game practices, videogame cultures, videogame theory, and the practice of critical analysis. Within these chapters are explorations of sexual identity and health, videogame history, slapstick, player mythology and belief systems, gender and racial ideologies, games as a ‘body-without organs,’ and controversial games from Mass Effect 3 to Raid over Moscow. This volume aims to inspire further research in this rapidly evolving and expanding field.

How to Play Video Games

Author : Matthew Thomas Payne
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479805920
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book How to Play Video Games written by Matthew Thomas Payne and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building? From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving technological reality. Unlike other media technologies, video games demand engagement like no other, which begs the question—what is the role that video games play in our lives, from our homes, to our phones, and on global culture writ large? How to Play Video Games brings together forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts. Read about avatars in Grand Theft Auto V, or music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. See how Age of Empires taught a generation about postcolonialism, and how Borderlands exposes the seedy underbelly of capitalism. These essays suggest that understanding video games in a critical context provides a new way to engage in contemporary culture. They are a must read for fans and students of the medium.

Playing Video Games

Author : Peter Vorderer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135257477
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Playing Video Games written by Peter Vorderer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory. Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences integrates communication, psychology, and technology to examine the psychological and mediated aspects of playing video games. It is the first volume to delve deeply into these aspects of computer game play. It fits squarely into the media psychology arm of entertainment studies, the next big wave in media studies. The book targets one of the most popular and pervasive media in modern times, and it will serve to define the area of study and provide a theoretical spine for future research. This unique and timely volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in media studies and mass communication, psychology, and marketing.

Play Reality: How Videogames are Changing EVERYTHING

Author : Teace Snyder
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105304523
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Play Reality: How Videogames are Changing EVERYTHING by : Teace Snyder

Download or read book Play Reality: How Videogames are Changing EVERYTHING written by Teace Snyder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Reality: How Videogames are Changing EVERYTHING, is Jayne Gackenbach's and Teace Snyder's first book together and, like, the twentieth or something between the two of them. Jayne Gackenbach is a well-respected videogame and dream researcher and Teace Snyder is a 'kind of' well-respected hardcore gamer and lifelong writer. Jayne works at, and can be contacted through, Grant MacEwan University, where she has taught and researched for 21 years, and, Teace, oversees, and can be contacted through his website, www.teace.ca, which he created and launched in 2007. Oh yeah, and by the way, they're mother and son too, and, are currently living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where they regularly express the endless bounds of their geekiness and hold hipsters in utter contempt.

Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play

Author : David G. Embrick
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073913860X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play by : David G. Embrick

Download or read book Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play written by David G. Embrick and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many books and articles are emerging on the new area of game studies and the application of computer games to learning, therapeutic, military, and entertainment environments, few have attempted to contextualize the importance of virtual play within a broader social, cultural, and political environment that raises the question of the significance of work, play, power, and inequalities in the modern world. Studies tend to concentrate on the content of virtual games, but few have questioned how power is produced or reproduced by publishers, gamers, or even social media; how social exclusion (based on race, class, or gender) in the virtual environment is reproduced from the real world; and how actors are able to use new media to transcend their fears, anxieties, prejudices, and assumptions. The articles presented by the contributors in this volume represent cutting-edge research in the area of critical game play with the hope of drawing attention to the need for more studies that are both sociological and critical.

Does Playing Video Games Make Players More Violent?

Author : Barrie Gunter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137579854
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Does Playing Video Games Make Players More Violent? written by Barrie Gunter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an academic work which reviews and critiques the research literature concerning violent games and their alleged effects on players. It examines the debates about the potential effects of these games and the divisions between scholars working in the field. It places the research on violent video games in the longer historical context of scholarly work on media violence. It examines research from around the world on the nature of video games and their effects. It provides a critique of relevant theories of media violence effects and in particular theories developed within the older media violence literature and then considers how useful this and newer scholarly work might be for policy-makers and regulators. The book identifies where gaps exist in the extent literature and where future research attention might be directed.

The Effects of Video Games on Children

Author : Barrie Gunter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781850758334
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book The Effects of Video Games on Children written by Barrie Gunter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth in popularity of computer and video games, particularly among children and teenagers, has given rise to public concern about the effects they might have on youngsters. The violent themes of many of these games, coupled with their interactive nature, have led to accusations that they may be worse than televised violence in affecting children's antisocial behaviour. Other allegations are that they have an addictive quality and that excessive playing results in a diminished social contact and poorer school performance. But how bad are video games? There are strong methodological reasons for not accepting the evidence for video games effects at face value. There are also positive signs that playing these games can enhance particular mental competencies in children. This book provides an up-to-date review and critique of research evidence from around the world in an attempt to put the issue of video game effects into perspective.

Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games

Author : R. Colby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137307676
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games written by R. Colby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited collection whose contributors analyze the relationship between writing, learning, and video games/videogaming, these essays consist of academic essays from writing and rhetoric teacher-scholars, who theorize, and contextualize how computer/video games enrich writing practices within and beyond the classroom and the teaching of writing.

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Author : Dr. Harrison Sachs
Publisher : The Epic Books Of Dr. Harrison Sachs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice

Author : Steve Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351399470
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice written by Steve Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for describing the interplay between thinking (writing and rhetoric) and embodiment. The book demonstrates how Aristotle's understanding of character (ethos), habit (hexis), and nature (phusis) can productively connect rhetoric to what Holmes calls "procedural habits": the ways in which rhetoric emerges from its interactions with the dynamic accumulation of conscious and nonconscious embodied experiences that consequently give rise to meaning, procedural subjectivity, control, and communicative agency both in digital game design discourse and the activity of play.

Videogame Sciences and Arts

Author : Nelson Zagalo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030379833
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Videogame Sciences and Arts written by Nelson Zagalo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts, VJ 2019, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in November 2019. The 20 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Games and Theories; Table Boards; eSports; Uses and Methodologies; Game Criticism.

Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004439781
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is video game culture and video games as culture? Culture at Play avoids easy answers and deceitful single definitions. Instead, the collected essays included here navigate the messy and exciting waters of video games, of culture, and of the meeting of video games and culture, and do so from four perspectives: Players: Types and Identities; The Human/The Machine: Agents, Ethics, and Affect; Compassion, Recognition, and the Interpersonal; and Learning through Play. As a form of play, video games can greatly affect our lives. As digital objects, they participate in our digital lives. As both, they have a noticeable impact on our relationships with others, with society, and with ourselves, and this is the scope of this book.

A Multimodal Approach to Video Games and the Player Experience

Author : Weimin Toh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135118475X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book A Multimodal Approach to Video Games and the Player Experience written by Weimin Toh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume puts forth an original theoretical framework, the ludonarrative model, for studying video games which foregrounds the empirical study of the player experience. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to and description of the model, which draws on theoretical frameworks from multimodal discourse analysis, game studies, and social semiotics, and its development out of participant observation and qualitative interviews from the empirical study of a group of players. The volume then applies this approach to shed light on how players’ experiences in a game influence how they understand and make use of game components in order to progress its narrative. The book concludes with a frame by frame analysis of a popular game to demonstrate the model’s principles in action and its subsequent broader applicability to analyzing video game interaction and design. Offering a new way forward for video game research, this volume is key reading for students and scholars in multimodality, discourse analysis, game studies, interactive storytelling, and new media.

How to play and enjoy hunting video games

Author : Wings of Success
Publisher : Aldo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to play and enjoy hunting video games written by Wings of Success and published by Aldo Press. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the very word hunting excite the tiniest of cells in your body? You now have a whole new challange to master... trnsfor your hunting skills from the terrain to your computer!

Psychopathology Among Youth in the 21st Century: Examining Influences from Culture, Society and Technology

Author : Takahiro A. Kato
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889666131
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Psychopathology Among Youth in the 21st Century: Examining Influences from Culture, Society and Technology written by Takahiro A. Kato and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Debate About Playing Video Games

Author : Rachel Seigel
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1635176689
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Debate About Playing Video Games written by Rachel Seigel and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a thorough overview of the major pros and cons of playing video games. Readable text, interesting sidebars, and illuminating infographics invite readers to jump in and join the debate.