At Play presents a collection of work illustrating the wide
scope of intellectual dialogue surrounding digital games, as they
have become a focal point for the media in recent years and have
increasingly become an area of study in academia. Contributors to
this special issue represent an international landscape, and
include founders of the game studies area, as well as new
researchers who are already infl uencing the fi eld. All of the
articles are situated within important areas of communication
theory and research, covering such topics as how games impact media
economics and cross-media influence on the development of a new
medium; the promise and challenges of games as documentary media;
and the political subtext in games as it relates to the emergence
of a new and ever more important form of persuasive interactive
media. The range of both theoretical grounding and method of
approach offered in this special
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