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How to play video games /
""How to Play Video Games" explores the phenomena of video games and its impact on modern society"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | ""How to Play Video Games" explores the phenomena of video games and its impact on modern society"-- What does Pokémon go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock infinite help us navigate world-building? From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving technological reality. Video games demand engagement like no other media technology, which raises the question, what is the role that video games play in our livse, from our homes to our phones, and in global culture writ large? How to play video games brings together forty original essays from today's leading scholars of video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts. Read about avatars in Grand theft auto V, or music in The legend of Zelda: ocarina of time. See how Age of empires taught a generation about postcolonialism, and how Borderlands exposes the seedy underbelly of capitalism. These essays suggest that understanding video games in a critical context provides a new way to engage in contemporary culture now. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479830404 1479830402 9781479805921 1479805920 |