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The Players' Realm - Studies on the Culture of Video Games and Gaming (Paperback)
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The Players' Realm - Studies on the Culture of Video Games and Gaming (Paperback)
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Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of
everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the
twenty-first century. As new media technologies diffuse around the
world and as the depth and complexity of gaming networks increase,
scholars are becoming increasingly savvy in their approach to
digital games. While aesthetic and psychological approaches to the
study of digital games have garnered the most attention in the
past, scholars have only recently begun to study the important
social and cultural aspects of digital games. This study sketches
some of the various trajectories of digital games in modern Western
societies, looking first at the growth and persistence of the moral
panic that continues to accompany massive public interest in
digital games. The book then continues with what it deems a new
phase of games research exemplified by systematic examination of
specific aspects of digital games and gaming. Section one includes
four chapters that collectively consider politics and the
negotiation of power in game worlds. Section two details the
ideological webs within which games are produced and consumed.
Specifically, this important section offers a critical cultural
analysis of the hegemony that exists within games and its influence
upon players' personal ideologies. To conclude this analysis,
Section three examines game design features that relate to players'
self-characterization and social development within digital game
worlds. Section four explores the important relationship between
the producers and consumers of digital games, especially insomuch
as this relationship is giving rise to a community of novices and
professionals who will together determine the future of gaming and
- to a degree - popular culture.
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