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UNINA9910459479003321 |
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Utopic dreams and apocalyptic fantasies [[electronic resource] ] : critical approaches to researching video game play / / edited by J. Talmadge Wright, David G. Embrick, and András Lukács |
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Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010 |
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1-282-92187-8 |
9786612921872 |
0-7391-4702-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (424 p.) |
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WrightJ. Talmadge |
EmbrickDavid G |
LukácsAndrás |
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Video games - Social aspects |
Video games industry - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgments; chapter One; Introduction; J. Talmadge Wright, David G. Embrick, and Andra ́s Luka ́cs; part i; Modern Play and Technology-Defining Digital Play; chapter two; Play and Cultural Transformation-Or, What Would Huizinga Think of Video Games?; Thomas S. Henricks; chapter three; "Is He 'Avin a Laugh?": The Importance of Fun to Virtual Play Studies; Ken S. McAllister and Judd Ethan Ruggill; chapter four; Capitalism, Contradiction, and the Carnivalesque: Alienated Labor vs. Ludic Play; Lauren Langman and Andra ́s Luka ́cs; chapter five |
Sneaking Mission: Late Imperial America and Metal Gear SolidDerek Noon and Nick Dyer-Witheford; chapter six; I Blog, Therefore I Am: Virtual Embodiment and the Self; Alanna R. Miller; part ii; Marketing Culture and the Video Game Business; chapter seven; Marketing Computer Games: Reinforcing or Changing Stereotypes?; Paul R. Ketchum and B. Mitchell Peck; chapter eight; Censoring Violence in Virtual Dystopia: Issues in the Rating of Video Games in Japan and of |
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Japanese Video Games Outside Japan; William H. Kelly; chapter nine |
Coding Culture: Video Game Localization and the Practice of Mediating Cultural DifferenceRebecca Carlson and Jonathan Corliss; part iii; Researching Video Game Play; chapter ten; Beyond "Sheeping the Moon"-Methodological Considerations for Critical Studies of Virtual Realms; Andra ́s Luka ́cs; chapter eleven; The Chorus of the Dead: Roles, Identity Formation, and Ritual Processes Inside an FPS Multiplayer Online Game; Nicolas Ducheneaut; chapter twelve; The Quantitative-Qualitative Antinomy in Virtual World Studies; Samuel Coavoux; part iv; Summary and Conclusions; chapter thirteen |
Virtual Today, Reality Tomorrow: Taking Our Sociological Understanding of Virtual Gameplay to the Next LevelAndra ́s Luka ́cs, J. Talmadge Wright, and David G. Embrick; About the Contributors |
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Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies invites us to examine critical questions about video game play, pleasure, and fantasy from a sociological perspective. |
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UNINA9910794776103321 |
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Student success modeling : elementary school to college / / edited by Raymond V. Padilla ; foreword by Sarita E. Brown |
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Sterling, Virginia : , : Stylus, , 2009 |
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2009 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (234 pages) |
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School improvement programs - United States |
Students - United States |
Success - United States |
Children with social disabilities - Education - United States |
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UNINA990008900660403321 |
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Annual bibliography of English language and literature |
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Cambridge, : Modern Humanities Research Association |
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