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Gaming Culture(s) in India - Digital Play in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Gaming Culture(s) in India - Digital Play in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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This volume critically analyzes the multiple lives of the "gamer"
in India. It explores the "everyday" of the gaming life from the
player's perspective, not just to understand how the games are
consumed but also to analyze how the gamer influences the products'
many (virtual) lives. Using an intensive ethnographic approach and
in-depth interviews, this volume situates the practice of gaming
under a broader umbrella of digital leisure activities and
foregrounds the proliferation of gaming as a new media form and
cultural artifact; critically questions the term gamer and the many
debates surrounding the gamer tag to expand on how the gaming
identity is constructed and expressed; details participants' gaming
habits, practices and contexts from a cultural perspective and
analyzes the participants' responses to emerging industry trends,
reflections on playing practices and their relationships to
friends, communities and networks in gaming spaces; and examines
the offline and online spaces of gaming as sites of contestation
between developers of games and the players. A holistic study
covering one of the largest video game bases in the world, this
volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of
cultural studies, media and communication studies and science and
technology studies, as well as be of great appeal to the general
reader.
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