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Titolo: | Social exclusion, power and video game play [[electronic resource] ] : new research in digital media and technology / / edited by David G. Embrick, J. Talmadge Wright, and Andras Lukacs |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina: | 794.8 |
Soggetto topico: | Video games - Social aspects |
Fantasy games - Social aspects | |
Role playing - Social aspects | |
Leisure - Social aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | EmbrickDavid G WrightJ. Talmadge LukácsAndrás |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Social-Psychological Implications of Virtual Play; 1 Marking the Territory; 2 Discursive Engagements in World of Warcraft; 3 The Intermediate Ego; 4 Producing Place and Play in Virtual Game Spaces; Part II: Social Inequalities in Video Game Spaces: Race, Gender, and Virtual Play; 5 Racism in Video Gaming; 6 Worlds of Whiteness; 7 Gendered Pleasures; 8 Sincere Fictions of Whiteness in Virtual Worlds; 9 The Goddess Paradox; Part III: Game Fans Speak Out; 10 World of Warcraft and "the World of Science"; 11 Cosmo-Play; 12 Beyond the Virtual Realm |
ConclusionIndex | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book represents cutting-edge research that addresses major issues of social exclusion, power and liberatory fantasies in virtual play. Specifically, the scope of the book examines three areas of concern: social psychological implications of virtual gameplay; reproduction and contestation of social inequality in virtual realms. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Social exclusion, power and video game play |
ISBN: | 1-280-66632-3 |
9786613643254 | |
0-7391-3862-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451696403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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