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Portable Play in Everyday Life: The Nintendo DS (Hardcover, New)
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Portable Play in Everyday Life: The Nintendo DS (Hardcover, New)
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Despite the fact that the Nintendo DS is one the most popular game
systems of all time, theorists have largely ignored it. Here,
Samuel Tobin argues that the reason for this is that the DS is
literally and figuratively beneath notice and not just by game
scholars but by its own players as well. Indeed it is the very
"everydayness" of the Nintendo DS and of mobile gaming in general
that is invisible yet filled with critical potential. Portable Play
in Everyday Life explores how this everyday device fits into
players' homes, commutes and lives. Drawing on discourse analysis
and ethnographic methods, Tobin looks at the contexts, constraints
and desires that animates and complicates mobile play. This is a
significant shift away from examining the fantastic spaces inside
of games to looking instead at the real world and lives in which
play happens and why sometimes the "good enough" is just right.
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