Videogames, identity and digital subjectivity

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"This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are uniquely capable of representing and exploring the effects of digitization on day-to-day life. By modeling and incorporating new technologies (from artificial intelligence routines and data mining techniques to augmented reality interfaces), and by dramatizing the implications of these technologies for understandings of i…

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Full title :Videogames, identity and digital subjectivity / Rob Gallagher.

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Publication Date:©2018

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

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Description:1 online resource (210 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781315390949, 1315390949, 9781315390925, 1315390922, 9781315390932, 1315390930
oclc:ocn993963754
LC Classification:GV1469.34.S52
Dewey Decimal:794.8

Chapter 1 Digital Subjects: Videogames, Technology and Identity -- chapter 2 Datafied Subjects: Profiling and Personal Data -- chapter 3 Private Subjects: Secrecy, Scandal and Surveillance -- chapter 4 Beastly Subjects: Bodies and Interfaces -- chapter 5 Synthetic Subjects: Horror and Artificial Intelligence -- chapter 6 Mobile Subjects: Framing Selves and Spaces -- chapter 7 Productive Subjects: Time, Value and Gendifered Feelings.

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