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Description for Game Work
Paperback. Video and computer games in their cultural contexts Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; JFCA; UBJ; UDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817354206
SKU
V9780817354206
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Ref
99-15
About Ken S. McAllister
Ken S. McAllister is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona and Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative, a research collective that studies, teaches with, and builds video games.
Reviews for Game Work
A serious look at a growing business. - Communications Booknotes Quarterly ""McAllister has a clear vision of the medium, a vision that spans the technological, generational gap. In this book, he analyzes and investigates the historical forces that brought video games from concept to market, and he does this with economic, technical, and sociological perspectives in mind.... Stands as one ... Read more