How to do things with videogames

by Bogost, Ian

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Full title :How to do things with videogames / Ian Bogost

Summary

In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the New Yorker, and sales figures for games are reported alongside those of books, music, and movies. They are increasingly used for purposes other than entertainment, yet debates about videogames still fork along one of two paths: accusations of debasement through violence and isolation or defensive paeans to their potential as serious cultural works. In How to Do Things with Videogames, Ian Bogost contends that such generalizations obscure the limitless possibilities offered by the mediums ability to create complex simulated realities.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011

The Physical Object

Description:180 p.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780816676460, 0816676461, 9780816676477, 081667647X
oclc:ocn770596737
LC Classification:GV1469.34.S52
Dewey Decimal:793.932

Introduction: Media Microecology; Art; Empathy; Reverence; Music; Pranks; Transit; Branding; Electioneering; Promotion; Snapshots; Texture; Kitsch; Relaxation; Throwaways; Titillation; Exercise; Work; Habituation; Disinterest; Drill; Conclusion: The End of Gamers; Notes; Gameography