Utopic dreams and apocalyptic fantasies : critical approaches to researching video game play / / edited by J. Talmadge Wright, David G. Embrick, and Andras Lukacs

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 794.8
• Soggetto topico: Video games - Social aspects; Video games industry - Social aspects
• Altri autori: WrightJ. Talmadge EmbrickDavid G LukacsAndras
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies invites us to examine critical questions about video game play, pleasure, and fantasy from a sociological perspective.
• Titolo autorizzato: Utopic dreams and apocalyptic fantasies
• ISBN: 979-82-16-30523-1; 1-282-92187-8; 9786612921872; 0-7391-4702-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959019103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II