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The video game theory reader

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In the early days of Pong and Pac Man, video games appeared to be little more than an idle pastime. Today, video games make up a multi-billion dollar industry that rivals television and film. The Video game theory reader brings together exciting new work on the many ways video g…

The video game theory reader

by Perron, Bernard, Wolf, Mark J. P.

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In the early days of Pong and Pac Man, video games appeared to be little more than an idle pastime. Today, video games make up a multi-billion dollar industry that rivals television and film. The Video game theory reader brings together exciting new work on the many ways video g…

Fans, bloggers, and gamers: exploring participatory culture

by ebrary, Inc, Jenkins, Henry

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Examining the cultural life of meida consumers, this book takes readers from Jenkin's early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent writing, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers in the wake of th…

"Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though margina…

"Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though margina…

Fans, bloggers, and gamers: exploring participatory culture

by Jenkins, Henry

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Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active and socially connected consumers of popular culture. This volume maps the core theoretical and methodological issues in Fan Studies, and also charts the growth of participato…

Fans, bloggers, and gamers: exploring participatory culture

by Jenkins, Henry

fromACLS Humanities E-Book

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"Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though margina…

Digital play: the interaction of technology, culture, and marke…

by Dyer-Witheford, Nick, De Peuter, Greig, Kline, Stephen

fromCEL - Canadian Publishers Collection

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"In a marketplace that demands perpetual upgrades, the survival of interactive play ultimately depends on the adroit management of negotiations between game producers and youthful consumers of this new medium. The authors suggest a model of expansion that encompasses technologic…

Digital play: the interaction of technology, culture, and marke…

by Dyer-Witheford, Nick, De Peuter, Greig, Kline, Stephen

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In a marketplace that demands perpetual upgrades, the survival of interactive play ultimately depends on the adroit management of negotiations between game producers and youthful consumers of this new medium. The authors suggest a model of expansion that encompasses technologica…

Joystick nation: how videogames ate our quarters, won our hearts, …

by Herz, J. C., (Jessie Cameron)

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J.C. Hertz brings us the first popular history and critique of electronic entertainment from its genesis as primitive blips in the labs of Cold War computer programmers to the studios where networked 3-D theme parks are created. Tracing this neon branch of the computer industry …

First person: new media as story, performance, and game

by Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, Harrigan, Pat

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Electronic games have established a huge international market, significantly outselling non-digital games; people spend more money on The Sims than on "Monopoly" or even on "Magic: the Gathering." Yet it is widely believed that the market for electronic literature -- predicted b…

First person: new media as story, performance, and game

by Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, Harrigan, Pat

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Electronic games have established a huge international market, significantly outselling non-digital games; people spend more money on The Sims than on "Monopoly" or even on "Magic: the Gathering." Yet it is widely believed that the market for electronic literature -- predicted b…

What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy

by Gee, James Paul

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A controversial look at the positive things that can be learned from video games by a well known professor of education. James Paul Gee begins his new book with "I want to talk about video games-yes, even violent video games-and say some positive things about them." With this si…

Media literacy: new agendas in communication

by Tyner, Kathleen R.

fromNew agendas in communication series

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This volume explores how educators can leverage student proficiency with new literacies for learning in formal and informal educational environments. It also investigates critical literacy practices that can best respond to the proliferation of new media in society.

The ultimate history of video games: from Pong to Pokémon and beyond - the story behin…

by Kent, Steve L.

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Traces the history and development of video games, providing information on the first games, influential developers, how the games have changed over the years, and the most popular games