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Unity Game Audio Implementation - A Practical Guide for Beginners (Paperback): Andrew Coggan Unity Game Audio Implementation - A Practical Guide for Beginners (Paperback)
Andrew Coggan
R1,639 Discovery Miles 16 390 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- Highly accessible and code-free introduction to game audio, suitable for a wide range of undergraduate courses, such as music production, sound design and composition - Accompanied by eresources, including downloadable projects for each chapter - A great addition to our growing catalogue of game audio titles

Game Dev Stories Volume 1 - Interviews About Game Development and Culture (Paperback): David L Craddock Game Dev Stories Volume 1 - Interviews About Game Development and Culture (Paperback)
David L Craddock
R1,235 Discovery Miles 12 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

a collection of interviews from renowned author, David L. Craddock

Game Dev Stories Volume 2 - More Interviews About Game Development and Culture (Paperback): David L Craddock Game Dev Stories Volume 2 - More Interviews About Game Development and Culture (Paperback)
David L Craddock
R1,235 Discovery Miles 12 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Game Dev Stories: Interviews About Game Development and Culture Volumes 1 and 2 are a collection of interviews from renowned author David L. Craddock as he explores all corners of the video game industry. Collected from the author's archives, Game Dev Stories gathers conversations with individuals from all corners of the industry: Who they are, the paths they paved, and their contributions to this multibillion-dollar industry. This text offers viewpoints from well-known individuals like John Romero, Tom Hall, and Matt Householder. From artists and writers to programmers and designers, Game Dev Stories offers amazing insights and understanding to what occurs behind the screens of your favorite games and may help inspire future game developers in pursuing their dreams. Author Bio David L. Craddock writes fiction, nonfiction, and grocery lists. He is the author of over a dozen nonfiction books about video game development and culture, including the bestselling Stay Awhile and Listen series, Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, and Other Coin-Op Classics Invaded the Living Room, and fiction for young adults, including The Dumpster Club and Heritage: Book One of the Gairden Chronicles. Find him online @davidlcraddock on Twitter.

AI for Games (Hardcover): Ian Millington AI for Games (Hardcover)
Ian Millington
R3,593 Discovery Miles 35 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Provides a clear and concise overview of how AI is used in game development Gives a brief overview of the history of AI in games Considers the different models, techniques and algorithms that are used in creating game AI

Game Dev Stories Volume 1 - Interviews About Game Development and Culture (Hardcover): David L Craddock Game Dev Stories Volume 1 - Interviews About Game Development and Culture (Hardcover)
David L Craddock
R3,776 Discovery Miles 37 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

a collection of interviews from renowned author, David L. Craddock

Game Dev Stories Volume 2 - More Interviews About Game Development and Culture (Hardcover): David L Craddock Game Dev Stories Volume 2 - More Interviews About Game Development and Culture (Hardcover)
David L Craddock
R3,766 Discovery Miles 37 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Game Dev Stories: Interviews About Game Development and Culture Volumes 1 and 2 are a collection of interviews from renowned author David L. Craddock as he explores all corners of the video game industry. Collected from the author's archives, Game Dev Stories gathers conversations with individuals from all corners of the industry: Who they are, the paths they paved, and their contributions to this multibillion-dollar industry. This text offers viewpoints from well-known individuals like John Romero, Tom Hall, and Matt Householder. From artists and writers to programmers and designers, Game Dev Stories offers amazing insights and understanding to what occurs behind the screens of your favorite games and may help inspire future game developers in pursuing their dreams. Author Bio David L. Craddock writes fiction, nonfiction, and grocery lists. He is the author of over a dozen nonfiction books about video game development and culture, including the bestselling Stay Awhile and Listen series, Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, and Other Coin-Op Classics Invaded the Living Room, and fiction for young adults, including The Dumpster Club and Heritage: Book One of the Gairden Chronicles. Find him online @davidlcraddock on Twitter.

Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games (Hardcover): Andrei Nae Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games (Hardcover)
Andrei Nae
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates the narrativity of some of the most popular survival horror video games and the gender politics implicit in their storyworlds. In a thorough analysis of the genre that draws upon detailed comparisons with the mainstream action genre, Andrei Nae places his analysis firmly within a political and social context. In comparing survival horror games to the dominant game design norms of the action genre, the author differentiates between classical and postclassical survival horror games to show how the former reject the norms of the action genre and deliver a critique of the conservative gender politics of action games, while the latter are more heterogeneous in terms of their game design and, implicitly, gender politics. This book will appeal not only to scholars working in game studies, but also to scholars of horror, gender studies, popular culture, visual arts, genre studies and narratology.

Minecraft Master Builds (Hardcover): Mojang AB, Tom Stone Minecraft Master Builds (Hardcover)
Mojang AB, Tom Stone
R1,030 R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Save R222 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The definitive book on Minecraft's greatest creations. Minecraft is the global phenomenon inspiring people across the world to unleash their imaginations. Minecraft Master Builds showcases the creations that have taken the game to new levels, and introduces the builders behind them. Explore awe-inspiring vistas as the pages take you from stunning underwater sculptures to monumental space panoramas, or travel through time to visit grand medieval towns and futuristic cityscapes. Minecraft Master Builds is packed with beautifully rendered illustrations of each colossal creation, highlighting the painstaking details that make these builds masterful. Featuring exclusive interviews from the builders that provide insight into their design and creation, plus a foreword written by Mojang game tech lead and content creator slicedlime, this must-have book is perfect for Minecraft fans, aspiring builders, and anyone looking for inspiration!

Game Balance (Hardcover): Ian Schreiber, Brenda Romero Game Balance (Hardcover)
Ian Schreiber, Brenda Romero
R3,854 Discovery Miles 38 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Within the field of game design, game balance can best be described as a black art. It is the process by which game designers make a game simultaneously fair for players while providing them just the right amount of difficulty to be both exciting and challenging without making the game entirely predictable. This involves a combination of mathematics, psychology, and occasionally other fields such as economics and game theory. Game Balance offers readers a dynamic look into game design and player theory. Throughout the book, relevant topics on the use of spreadsheet programs will be included in each chapter. This book therefore doubles as a useful reference on Microsoft Excel, Google Spreadsheets, and other spreadsheet programs and their uses for game designers. FEATURES The first and only book to explore game balance as a topic in depth Topics range from intermediate to advanced, while written in an accessible style that demystifies even the most challenging mathematical concepts to the point where a novice student of game design can understand and apply them Contains powerful spreadsheet techniques which have been tested with all major spreadsheet programs and battle-tested with real-world game design tasks Provides short-form exercises at the end of each chapter to allow for practice of the techniques discussed therein along with three long-term projects divided into parts throughout the book that involve their creation Written by award-winning designers with decades of experience in the field Ian Schreiber has been in the industry since 2000, first as a programmer and then as a game designer. He has worked on eight published game titles, training/simulation games for three Fortune 500 companies, and has advised countless student projects. He is the co-founder of Global Game Jam, the largest in-person game jam event in the world. Ian has taught game design and development courses at a variety of colleges and universities since 2006. Brenda Romero is a BAFTA award-winning game director, entrepreneur, artist, and Fulbright award recipient and is presently game director and creator of the Empire of Sin franchise. As a game director, she has worked on 50 games and contributed to many seminal titles, including the Wizardry and Jagged Alliance series and titles in the Ghost Recon, Dungeons & Dragons, and Def Jam franchises.

Dungeon Hacks - How NetHack, Angband, and Other Rougelikes Changed the Course of Video Games (Paperback): David L Craddock Dungeon Hacks - How NetHack, Angband, and Other Rougelikes Changed the Course of Video Games (Paperback)
David L Craddock
R1,049 Discovery Miles 10 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1980, computers were instruments of science and mathematics, military secrets and academia. Stern administrators lorded over sterile university laboratories and stressed one point to the wide-eyed students privileged enough to set foot within them: Computers were not toys. Defying authority, hackers seized control of monolithic mainframes to create a new breed of computer game: the roguelike, cryptic and tough-as-nails adventures drawn from text-based symbols instead of state-of-the-art 3D graphics. Despite their visual simplicity, roguelike games captivate thousands of players around the world. From the author of the bestselling Stay Awhile and Listen series, Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games introduces you to the visionaries behind some of the most popular roguelikes of all time and shows how their creations paved the way for the blockbuster videogames of today-and beyond.

Dungeon Hacks - How NetHack, Angband, and Other Rougelikes Changed the Course of Video Games (Hardcover): David L Craddock Dungeon Hacks - How NetHack, Angband, and Other Rougelikes Changed the Course of Video Games (Hardcover)
David L Craddock
R2,532 Discovery Miles 25 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1980, computers were instruments of science and mathematics, military secrets and academia. Stern administrators lorded over sterile university laboratories and stressed one point to the wide-eyed students privileged enough to set foot within them: Computers were not toys. Defying authority, hackers seized control of monolithic mainframes to create a new breed of computer game: the roguelike, cryptic and tough-as-nails adventures drawn from text-based symbols instead of state-of-the-art 3D graphics. Despite their visual simplicity, roguelike games captivate thousands of players around the world. From the author of the bestselling Stay Awhile and Listen series, Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games introduces you to the visionaries behind some of the most popular roguelikes of all time and shows how their creations paved the way for the blockbuster videogames of today-and beyond.

Videogames and the Gothic (Hardcover): Ewan Kirkland Videogames and the Gothic (Hardcover)
Ewan Kirkland
R4,052 Discovery Miles 40 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship as it argues for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itself This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design The book moves beyond the study of generic influences of horror on digital gaming, and focuses in on the Gothic, a less visceral mode tending towards the unsettling, the uncertain and the uncanny The book will have resonance with scholars and students in both Gothic and digital game scholarship, as well as those interested in Gothic novels, media and popular culture, digital games and interactive fiction

Feminist War Games? - Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games (Paperback): Jon Saklofske, Alyssa Arbuckle,... Feminist War Games? - Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games (Paperback)
Jon Saklofske, Alyssa Arbuckle, Jon Bath
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Feminist War Games? explores the critical intersections and collisions between feminist values and perceptions of war, by asking whether feminist values can be asserted as interventional approaches to the design, play, and analysis of games that focus on armed conflict and economies of violence. Focusing on the ways that games, both digital and table-top, can function as narratives, arguments, methods, and instruments of research, the volume demonstrates the impact of computing technologies on our perceptions, ideologies, and actions. Exploring the compatibility between feminist values and systems of war through games is a unique way to pose destabilizing questions, solutions, and approaches; to prototype alternative narratives; and to challenge current idealizations and assumptions. Positing that feminist values can be asserted as a critical method of design, as an ideological design influence, and as a lens that determines how designers and players interact with and within arenas of war, the book addresses the persistence and brutality of war and issues surrounding violence in games, whilst also considering the place and purpose of video games in our cultural moment. Feminist War Games? is a timely volume that questions the often-toxic nature of online and gaming cultures. As such, the book will appeal to a broad variety of disciplinary interests, including sociology, education, psychology, literature, history, politics, game studies, digital humanities, media and cultural studies, and gender studies, as well as those interested in playing, or designing, socially engaged games.

The Translation of Realia and Irrealia in Game Localization - Culture-Specificity between Realism and Fictionality (Hardcover):... The Translation of Realia and Irrealia in Game Localization - Culture-Specificity between Realism and Fictionality (Hardcover)
Silvia Pettini
R4,058 Discovery Miles 40 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the impact of a video game's degree of realism or fictionality on its linguistic dimensions, investigating the challenges and strategies for translating realia and irrealia, the interface of the real world and the game world where culture-specificity manifests itself. The volume outlines the key elements in the translation of video games, such as textual non-linearity, multitextuality, and playability, and introduces the theoretical framework used to determine a game's respective degree of realism or fictionality. Pettini applies an interdisciplinary approach drawing on video game research and Descriptive Translation Studies to the linguistic and translational analysis of in-game dialogs in English-Italian and English-Spanish language pairs from a corpus of three war video games. This approach allows for an in-depth look at the localization challenges posed by the varying degree of realism and fictionality across video games and the different strategies translators employ in response to these challenges. A final chapter offers a comparative analysis of the three games and subsequently avenues for further research on the role of culture-specificity in game localization. This book is key reading for students and scholars interested in game localization, audiovisual translation studies, and video game research.

Coding with Scratch - Create Awesome Platform Games - The QuestKids do Coding (Paperback): Max Wainewright Coding with Scratch - Create Awesome Platform Games - The QuestKids do Coding (Paperback)
Max Wainewright
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Data Stewardship for Open Science - Implementing FAIR Principles (Paperback): Barend Mons Data Stewardship for Open Science - Implementing FAIR Principles (Paperback)
Barend Mons
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Data Stewardship for Open Science: Implementing FAIR Principles has been written with the intention of making scientists, funders, and innovators in all disciplines and stages of their professional activities broadly aware of the need, complexity, and challenges associated with open science, modern science communication, and data stewardship. The FAIR principles are used as a guide throughout the text, and this book should leave experimentalists consciously incompetent about data stewardship and motivated to respect data stewards as representatives of a new profession, while possibly motivating others to consider a career in the field. The ebook, avalable for no additional cost when you buy the paperback, will be updated every 6 months on average (providing that significant updates are needed or avaialble). Readers will have the opportunity to contribute material towards these updates, and to develop their own data management plans, via the free Data Stewardship Wizard.

Itchy, Tasty - An Unofficial History of Resident Evil (Paperback): Alex Aniel Itchy, Tasty - An Unofficial History of Resident Evil (Paperback)
Alex Aniel
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Capcom's horror video game series Resident Evil - one of the most popular, innovative and widely influential franchises of all time. Industry expert Alex Aniel spent two years interviewing key former members of Capcom staff, allowing him to tell the inside story of how Resident Evil was envisioned as early as the late 1980s, how its unexpected and unprecedented success saved the company from financial trouble, how the series struggled at the turn of the century and, eventually, how a new generation of creators was born after the release of Resident Evil 4. Itchy, Tasty narrates the development of each Resident Evil game released between 1996 and 2006, interspersed with fascinating commentary from the game creators themselves, offering unique insight into how the series became the world-conquering franchise it is today.

Minecraft Construction - An Unofficial Kids' Guide (Hardcover): Percy Leed Minecraft Construction - An Unofficial Kids' Guide (Hardcover)
Percy Leed
R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Game Anim - Video Game Animation Explained (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Jonathan Cooper Game Anim - Video Game Animation Explained (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Jonathan Cooper
R3,935 Discovery Miles 39 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Game Anim teaches the technical and artistic fundamentals of video game animation and goes further to provide practical advice and industry insights to help you become a rounded and successful game animator. Covering every stage of game production from the animator's perspective, it is packed with the lessons learned from working on a variety of game types in both in-game and cinematic roles in animator, lead, and director positions. These have been successful across multiple studios regardless of team, size and culture. The 2nd edition includes a new chapter on 2D and Pixel Art Animation, an enhanced mocap chapter covering the latest developments in Motion Matching, and even more interviews with top professionals in the field. Game Anim provides essential guidance to those looking to break into the industry and successful animators wishing to take the next step in their career. Key Features * 20 Years of Insight: Accumulated knowledge from 2 decades of experience in all areas of game animation. * The 5 Fundamentals: Reinterprets the classic 12 animation principles and sets out 5 new fundamentals for great game animation. * Animator Interviews: Notable game animators offer behind-the-scenes stories, tips, and advice. * Free Animation Rig: Free "AZRI" maya rig, tutorials and other resources on the accompanying website: www.gameanim.com/book

Leading with Sound - Proactive Sound Practices in Video Game Development (Hardcover): Rob Bridgett Leading with Sound - Proactive Sound Practices in Video Game Development (Hardcover)
Rob Bridgett
R4,064 Discovery Miles 40 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Leading with Sound is the must-have companion guide to working on video game projects. Focused on the creative, collaborative, philosophical and organizational skills behind game sound and eschewing the technical, this book celebrates the subjects most essential to leading with sound in video game development at any level. Refuting the traditional optics of sound as a service in favour of sound as a pro-active visionary department, , this book examines each of the four food-groups of dialogue, sound design, music and mix, not through the usual technical and production lenses of 'how' and 'when', but the essential lens of 'why' that enables leadership with sound. Leading with Sound is essential reading for aspiring sound designers, inside and outside of the classroom, as well as experienced professionals in the game industry.

The Art of Ni No Kuni 2 - Revenant Kingdom (Hardcover): Titan Books The Art of Ni No Kuni 2 - Revenant Kingdom (Hardcover)
Titan Books 1
R947 R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Save R178 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Art of Ni no Kuni (TM)II: REVENANT KINGDOM is a lavish full-color book showcasing the best art from the highly anticipated roleplaying game. Developed by Level-5 and with collaboration from legendary Studio Ghibli animator Yoshiyuki Momose, Ni no Kuni (TM)II: REVENANT KINGDOM is a beautiful, characterful and exciting game. This book is the ultimate fan resource, showcasing the development of the amazing characters, monsters, vehicles and locations from initial concept sketches through to the finished artworks.

Large-Scale Machine Learning in the Earth Sciences (Paperback): Ashok N. Srivastava, Ramakrishna Nemani, Karsten Steinhaeuser Large-Scale Machine Learning in the Earth Sciences (Paperback)
Ashok N. Srivastava, Ramakrishna Nemani, Karsten Steinhaeuser
R1,393 Discovery Miles 13 930 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From the Foreword: "While large-scale machine learning and data mining have greatly impacted a range of commercial applications, their use in the field of Earth sciences is still in the early stages. This book, edited by Ashok Srivastava, Ramakrishna Nemani, and Karsten Steinhaeuser, serves as an outstanding resource for anyone interested in the opportunities and challenges for the machine learning community in analyzing these data sets to answer questions of urgent societal interest...I hope that this book will inspire more computer scientists to focus on environmental applications, and Earth scientists to seek collaborations with researchers in machine learning and data mining to advance the frontiers in Earth sciences." --Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Large-Scale Machine Learning in the Earth Sciences provides researchers and practitioners with a broad overview of some of the key challenges in the intersection of Earth science, computer science, statistics, and related fields. It explores a wide range of topics and provides a compilation of recent research in the application of machine learning in the field of Earth Science. Making predictions based on observational data is a theme of the book, and the book includes chapters on the use of network science to understand and discover teleconnections in extreme climate and weather events, as well as using structured estimation in high dimensions. The use of ensemble machine learning models to combine predictions of global climate models using information from spatial and temporal patterns is also explored. The second part of the book features a discussion on statistical downscaling in climate with state-of-the-art scalable machine learning, as well as an overview of methods to understand and predict the proliferation of biological species due to changes in environmental conditions. The problem of using large-scale machine learning to study the formation of tornadoes is also explored in depth. The last part of the book covers the use of deep learning algorithms to classify images that have very high resolution, as well as the unmixing of spectral signals in remote sensing images of land cover. The authors also apply long-tail distributions to geoscience resources, in the final chapter of the book.

Creating Games with Unity, Substance Painter, & Maya - Models, Textures, Animation, & Code (Hardcover): Jingtian Li, Adam... Creating Games with Unity, Substance Painter, & Maya - Models, Textures, Animation, & Code (Hardcover)
Jingtian Li, Adam Watkins, Kassandra Arevalo, Matthew Tovar
R4,435 Discovery Miles 44 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Unity, Substance Painter, and Maya. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This includes polygonal modeling, UV layout, and custom texture painting. The book then covers rigging and animation solutions to create assets to be placed in the game, including animated first-person assets and motion-captured NPC animations. Finally, readers can put it all together and build interactivity that allows the player to create a finished game using the assets built and animated earlier in the book. * Written by industry professionals with real-world experience in building assets and games * Build a complete game from start to finish * Learn what the pros use: construct all assets using the tools used at game studios across the world * All software used are free to students * When complete, students will have a playable version of an FPS game Jingtian Li is a graduate of China's Central Academy of Fine Arts and New York's School of Visual Arts, where he earned an MFA in Computer Art. He currently is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Adam Watkins is a 20-year veteran of 3D education. He holds an MFA in 3D Animation and a BFA in Theatre Arts from Utah State University. He currently is the Coordinator and Professor of the 3D Animation & Game Department at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Kassandra Arevalo is an instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. She previously worked as an animator at Immersed Games. Matt Tovar is an industry veteran animator. He has worked at Naughty Dog, Infinity Ward, and Sony Interactive on such games as The Last of Us, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and most recently Marvel's Avengers with Crystal Dynamics. He is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.

2D Game Development with Unity (Paperback): Franz Lanzinger 2D Game Development with Unity (Paperback)
Franz Lanzinger
R1,817 Discovery Miles 18 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book teaches beginners and aspiring game developers how to develop 2D games with Unity. Thousands of commercial games have been built with Unity. The reader will learn the complete process of 2D game development, step by step. The theory behind each step is fully explained. This book contains numerous color illustrations and access to all source code and companion videos. Key Features: Fully detailed game projects from scratch. Beginners can do the steps and create games right away. No coding experience is necessary. Numerous examples take a raw beginner toward professional coding proficiency in C# and Unity. Includes a thorough introduction to Unity 2020, including 2D game development, prefabs, cameras, animation, character controllers, lighting, and sound. Includes a step-by-step introduction to Unity 2019.3. Extensive coverage of GIMP, Audacity, and MuseScore for the creation of 2D graphics, sound effects, and music. All required software is free to use for any purpose including commercial applications and games. Franz Lanzinger is the owner and chief game developer of Lanzinger Studio, an independent game development and music studio in Sunnyvale, California. He started his career in game programming in 1982 at Atari Games, Inc., where he designed and programmed the classic arcade game Crystal Castles. In 1989, he joined Tengen, where he was a programmer and designer for Ms. Pac-Man and Toobin' on the NES. He co-founded Bitmasters, where he designed and coded games including Rampart and Championship Pool for the NES and SNES, and NCAA Final Four Basketball for the SNES and Sega Genesis. In 1996, he founded Actual Entertainment, publisher and developer of the Gubble video game series. He has a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and attended graduate school in mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former world record holder on Centipede and Burgertime. He is a professional author, game developer, accompanist, and piano teacher. He is currently working on remaking the original Gubble game in Unity and Blender.

20th Century Media and the American Psyche - A Strange Love (Paperback): Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay 20th Century Media and the American Psyche - A Strange Love (Paperback)
Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This innovative text bridges media theory, psychology, and interpersonal communication by describing how our relationships with media emulate the relationships we develop with friends and romantic partners through their ability to replicate intimacy, regularity, and reciprocity. In research-rich, conversational chapters, the author applies psychological principles to understand how nine influential media technologies-theatrical film, recorded music, consumer market cameras, radio, network and cable television, tape cassettes, video gaming, and dial-up internet service providers-irreversibly changed the communication environment, culture, and psychological expectations that we then apply to future media technologies. With special attention to mediums absent from the traditional literature, including recorded music, cable television, and magnetic tape, this book encourages readers to critically reflect on their own past relationships with media and consider the present environment and the future of media given their own personal habits. 20th Century Media and the American Psyche is ideal for media studies, communication, and psychology students, scholars, and industry professionals, as well as anyone interested in a greater understanding of the psychological significance of media technology, usage, and adoption across the past 150 years.

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