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Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media, interaction, identity, performance, memory and mediation. The book is particularly concerned with issues of agency and power, identifying strong correlations between per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thornham, Helen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2011.
Temas:
Video games.
Video games > Social aspects.
Video Games
Jeux vidéo.
Jeux vidéo > Aspect social.
video games.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Video games
Video games > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introductions: Videogames, Gender, Ethnography; 2 Constructing a Gendered Gaming Identity; 3 Articulating Pleasure: Gender, Technology and Power; 4 The Practices of Gameplay; 5 Bodies and Action; 6 Pleasure and the Imagined Gamer; 7 Conclusions: Towards a Theory of Domestic Videogaming; Appendix 1: Index and Statistics of Houses and Household Members; Appendix 2: Index of Interviews; Bibliography; Index.

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