Utopic dreams and apocalyptic fantasies : critical approaches to researching video game play /

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Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies invites us to examine critical questions about video game play, pleasure, and fantasy from a sociological perspective.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wright, J. Talmadge, Embrick, David G., Lukács, András
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010.
Temas:
Video games > Social aspects.
Video games industry > Social aspects.
Jeux vidéo > Aspect social.
Jeux vidéo > Industrie > Aspect social.
Video games > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; chapter One; Introduction; J. Talmadge Wright, David G. Embrick, and Andra ́s Luka ́cs; part i; Modern Play and Technology-Defining Digital Play; chapter two; Play and Cultural Transformation-Or, What Would Huizinga Think of Video Games?; Thomas S. Henricks; chapter three; "Is He 'Avin a Laugh?": The Importance of Fun to Virtual Play Studies; Ken S. McAllister and Judd Ethan Ruggill; chapter four; Capitalism, Contradiction, and the Carnivalesque: Alienated Labor vs. Ludic Play; Lauren Langman and Andra ́s Luka ́cs; chapter five
  • Sneaking Mission: Late Imperial America and Metal Gear SolidDerek Noon and Nick Dyer-Witheford; chapter six; I Blog, Therefore I Am: Virtual Embodiment and the Self; Alanna R. Miller; part ii; Marketing Culture and the Video Game Business; chapter seven; Marketing Computer Games: Reinforcing or Changing Stereotypes?; Paul R. Ketchum and B. Mitchell Peck; chapter eight; Censoring Violence in Virtual Dystopia: Issues in the Rating of Video Games in Japan and of Japanese Video Games Outside Japan; William H. Kelly; chapter nine
  • Coding Culture: Video Game Localization and the Practice of Mediating Cultural DifferenceRebecca Carlson and Jonathan Corliss; part iii; Researching Video Game Play; chapter ten; Beyond "Sheeping the Moon"-Methodological Considerations for Critical Studies of Virtual Realms; Andra ́s Luka ́cs; chapter eleven; The Chorus of the Dead: Roles, Identity Formation, and Ritual Processes Inside an FPS Multiplayer Online Game; Nicolas Ducheneaut; chapter twelve; The Quantitative-Qualitative Antinomy in Virtual World Studies; Samuel Coavoux; part iv; Summary and Conclusions; chapter thirteen
  • Virtual Today, Reality Tomorrow: Taking Our Sociological Understanding of Virtual Gameplay to the Next LevelAndra ́s Luka ́cs, J. Talmadge Wright, and David G. Embrick; About the Contributors

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