The Players' Realm

Studies on the Culture of Video Games and Gaming
Herausgeber: Williams, J. Patrick; Smith, Jonas Heide

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780786428328
• ISBN-10: 0786428325
• Artikelnr.: 22159674

Autorenporträt

J. Patrick Williams is an assistant professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University. Jonas Heide Smith has a Ph.D. from the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen and currently heads the university's MSC program in Digital Design and Communication.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: From Moral Panics to Mature Games Research in Action     
     
Section 1: Control versus Authorship     
1. Who Governs the Gamers?     
2. Terms of Service and Terms of Play in Children's Online Gaming     
3. Narrative Power in Online Game Worlds: The Story of Cybertown     
4. Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: How Systems of Justice Developed in
Online Text-Based Gaming Communities     
Section 2: Discourse and Ideology     
5. From The Green Berets to America's Army: Video Games as a Vehicle for
Political Propaganda     
6. Rhetorics of Computer and Video Game Research     
7. From Margin to Center: Biographies of Technicity and the Construction of
Hegemonic Games Culture     
8. Ghost Recon: Island Thunder: Cuba in the Virtual Battlescape     
Section 3: Experience and Identity     
9. The Player's Journey     
10. Mutual Fantasy Online: Playing with People     
11. From Dollhouse to Metaverse: What Happened When The Sims Went
Online     
12. Platform Dependent: Console and Computer Cultures     
Section 4: Consumption and Community     
13. Mapping Independent Game Design      
14. Desire for Commodities and Fantastic Consumption in Digital Games     
15. Reading and Playing: What Makes Interactive Fiction Unique     
About the Contributors     
Index