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The Players´ Realm: Studies on the Culture of Video Games and Gaming
J Patrick Williams
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Paperback. Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the twenty-first century. This study sketches some of the various trajectories of digital games in modern Western societies, looking at the growth and persistence of the moral panic that accompanies massive public interest. Editor(s): Williams, Dr. J. Patrick; Smith, Jonas Heide. Num Pages: 308 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHBS; UDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 416.
Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the twenty-first century. As new media technologies diffuse around the world and as the depth and complexity of gaming networks increase, scholars are becoming increasingly savvy in their approach to digital games. While aesthetic and psychological approaches to the study of digital games have garnered the most attention in the past, scholars have only recently begun to study the important social and cultural aspects of digital games. This study sketches some of the various trajectories of digital games in modern Western ... Read more
Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the twenty-first century. As new media technologies diffuse around the world and as the depth and complexity of gaming networks increase, scholars are becoming increasingly savvy in their approach to digital games. While aesthetic and psychological approaches to the study of digital games have garnered the most attention in the past, scholars have only recently begun to study the important social and cultural aspects of digital games. This study sketches some of the various trajectories of digital games in modern Western ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Jefferson, NC, United States
ISBN
9780786428328
SKU
V9780786428328
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About J Patrick Williams
J. Patrick Williams is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University. He is co-editor of Gaming as Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games (2006). Jonas Heide Smith is a PhD candidate at the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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