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Computer Games and the Social Imaginary

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Digital Media and Society

Paru le : 2013-10-30

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In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age.
Tracing the origins of gaming to the revival of play in the 1960s counter culture, Computer Games and the Social Imaginary describes how the energies of that movement transformed computer technology from something ugly and machine-like into a world of colour and ‘fun’. In the process, play with computers became computer gaming – a new cultural practice with its own values.
From the late 1980s gaming became a resource for people to draw upon as they faced the challenges of life in a new, globalizing digital economy. Gamer identity furnishes a revivified capitalism with compliant and ‘streamlined’ workers, but at times gaming culture also challenges the corporations that control game production.
Analysing topics such as the links between technology and power, the formation of gaming culture and the subjective impact of play with computer games, this insightful text will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media, games studies and the information society.
Pages
248 pages
Collection
Digital Media and Society
Parution
2013-10-30
Marque
Polity
EAN papier
9780745641102
EAN PDF
9780745678955
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0
Nombre pages imprimables
248
Taille du fichier
1198 Ko
Prix
53,70 €
EAN EPUB
9780745671901
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Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
248
Taille du fichier
870 Ko
Prix
17,93 €

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