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Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture
Alexander R. Galloway
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Description for Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture
Paperback. Series: Electronic Meditations Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, 39 halftones, 2 line art illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 212 x 10. Weight in Grams: 230.
Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures (Zork, for example) and have little to say about such visually and conceptually sophisticated games as Final Fantasy X, Shenmue, Grand Theft Auto, Halo, and The Sims, in which players inhabit elaborately detailed worlds and manipulate digital avatars with a vast—and in some ... Read more
Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures (Zork, for example) and have little to say about such visually and conceptually sophisticated games as Final Fantasy X, Shenmue, Grand Theft Auto, Halo, and The Sims, in which players inhabit elaborately detailed worlds and manipulate digital avatars with a vast—and in some ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Electronic Meditations Series
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816648511
SKU
V9780816648511
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About Alexander R. Galloway
Alexander R. Galloway is assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University and author of Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization.
Reviews for Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture
"Galloway is active as both a scholar and an expert player of the video games he is analyzing. This is contemporary media theory at its best." - Lev Manovich"