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Title: The Pleasures of Computer Gaming. Format: Paperback. Condition: New. ISBN: 9780786435951. Language: English.

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This collection of essays situates the digital gaming phemen alongside broader debates in cultural and media studies. Contributors to this volume maintain that computer games are t simply toys, but rather circulate as commodities, new media techlogies, and items of visual culture that are embedded in complex social practices. Apart from placing games within longer arcs of cultural history and broader critical debates, the contributors to this volume all adopt a pedagogical and theoretical approach to studying games and gameplay, drawing on the interdisciplinary resources of the humanities and social sciences, particularly new media studies.In eight essays, the authors develop rich and nuanced understandings of the aesthetic appeals and pleasurable engagements of digital gameplay. The topics include the role of 'cheats' and 'easter eggs' in influencing cheating as an aesthetic phemen of gameplay; the relationship between videogames, gambling, and addiction; players' aesthetic and kinaesthetic interactions with computing techlogy; and the epistemology and phemelogy of popular strategy-based wargames and their relationship with real-world military applications. Notes and a bibliography accompany each essay, and the work includes several screenshots, images, and photographs.

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Mcfarland & Co Inc
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078643595x
ISBN-13
9780786435951
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Paperback
Language
English
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Cultural Studies

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286g
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229mm
Width
162mm

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Place of Publication
Jefferson, Nc
Spine
12mm
Edited by
Melanie Swalwell, Jason Wilson
Content Note
Photos, Notes, Bibliographies, Index
Author Biography
Melanie Swalwell conducts research on the intersections between aesthetics, new media arts and digital games. She currently lectures in the media studies program at Victoria University of Wellington. Jason Wilson has a range of international publications in videogame studies, on topics including early videogames and independent game design. He is a research associate at Queensland University of Technology.
Date of Publication
15/08/2008
Genre
Cultural Studies
Country of Publication
United States

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