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By admin | October 8, 2010
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How to Do Things with Videogames $57 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 medium’s ability to create complex simulated realities. Bogost, a leading scholar of videogames and an award-winning game designer, explores the many ways computer games are used today: documenting important historical and cultural events; educating both children and adults; promoting commercial products; and serving as platforms for art, pornography, exercise, relaxation, pranks, and politics. Examining these applications in a series of short, inviting, and provocative essays, he argues that together they make the medium broader, richer, and more relevant to a wider audience. Bogost concludes that as videogames become ever more enmeshed with contemporary life, the idea of gamers as social identities will become obsolete, giving rise to gaming by the masses. But until games are understood to have valid applications across the cultural spectrum, their true potential will remain unrealized. How to Do Things with Videogames offers a fresh starting point to more fully consider games’ progress today and promise for the future. |
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Videogames $35.95 This lucid and engaging introduction guides the reader through the world of videogaming, providing a history of the videogame, from its origins in the computer lab to its contemporary status as a global entertainment industry. |
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How to Do Things with Videogames by Bogost, Ian Edition , $22.49 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 medium’s ability to create complex simulated realities.Bogost, a leading scholar of videogames and an award-winning game designer, explores the many ways computer games are used today: documenting important historical and cultural events; educating both children and adults; promoting commercial products; and serving as platforms for art, pornography, exercise, relaxation, pranks, and politics. Examining these applications in a series of short, inviting, and provocative essays, he argues that together they make the medium broader, richer, and more relevant to a wider audience.Bogost concludes that as videogames become ever more enmeshed with contemporary life, the idea of gamers as social identities will become obsolete, giving rise to gaming by the masses. But until games are understood to have valid applications across the cultural spectrum, their true potential will remain unrealized. How to Do Things with Videogames offers a fresh starting point to more fully consider games’ progress today and promise for the future. |
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Trigger Happy : Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution $19.5 Excellent Condition Used |
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Playing with Videogames $39.95 Playing with Videogames offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the meanings of videogames and videogaming within the contemporary media environment. |
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The Art of Videogames $92.95 The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames... |
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Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames, by Bateman $58.04 This book is in Used condition |
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100 Videogames $21.95 Videogames are one of the most culturally, socially, and economically significant, not to mention pervasive, media forms... |
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Videogames and Art $57.95 From Madden NFL 2007 to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, videogames are firmly enmeshed in modern culture... |
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Videogames and Virtual Realities in East Asia $151.5 Videogames are extremely popular in East Asia... |
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Videogames (Clash) $2.99 See the world's first videogames console. Learn about the online game with 10 million players. Meet the professional eSportsman. Find out how games are developed . . . and how you could become a games designer. |
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Inside the New Media of Videogames $144 With their significant impact upon economic, social and political spheres, videogames are a crucial site of sociological research... |
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The Global Videogames Industry $75.9 Over the last decade, videogames have become an increasingly important arm of the global cultural industries... |
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Hunting, Gathering, & Videogames $16.5 Aimed toward alienated youth, Hunting, Gathering, & Videogames explains why we have to work (tracing the common link between the workday of prehistory''''s hunter-gatherer and today''''s videogame ... |
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