Paul Booth

Board Games as Media (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we decide which games to play and which are just wastes of cardboard? With little scholarly research in this still-emerging field, Board Games as Media underscores the importance of board games in the ever-evolving world of media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501357190
• Artikelnr.: 60763955

Autorenporträt

Paul Booth is Professor of Communication at DePaul University, USA. Booth's research interests include fandom, new technologies and media, popular culture, and cult media. He is the author of Time on TV (2012), Digital Fandom (2010), and Playing Fans (2014). He has edited Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013), and has published numerous articles on fans, social media, and technology. He is currently enjoying a cup of coffee.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Board Games as Media
1. Meeples, Miniatures, and Cubes: Ludo-Textual Analyses of Board Games
2. A Depressing Choose-Your-Own-Adventure: The Interactive Potentiality of
Board Games
3. Colonizing Mars: Ludic Discourse Analysis
4. The Designer as Créateur: The Board Game Industry and Constructed
Authorship
5. The Player as Fan: Ludic Fandom in Board Game Cultures
6. Surveying Board Game Players: Who Plays What.
7. .and Why: Examining Motivations and Popularity of Board Games
8. Cultural Studies of Games: Diversity and Inclusion in the Board Game
Industry and Hobby
9. The Epic Adventure of Grundy and Trixie: An Autoethnographic Journey
Through Gloomhaven
Conclusion: The Board Gaming Environment
References
Appendix 1. Survey Questions
Appendix 2. Data from Survey
Bibliography
Index