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  • Rated M for Mature

    Sex and Sexuality in Video Games

    Edited by Evan W. Lauteria, Dr. Matthew Wysocki ...
    The word sex has many implications when it is used in connection with video games. As game studies scholars have argued, games are player-driven experiences. Players must participate in processes of play to move the game forward. The addition of content that incorporates sex and/or sexuality adds complexity that other media do not share.Rated M for Mature further develops our understanding of the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Emerging Genres

    New Formations of Games

    Edited by Joshua Call, Betsy Brey, Gerald A. Voorhees, Dr. Matthew Wysocki ...
    Series series Approaches to Digital Game Studies
    This collection expands the analytical framework of digital games by exploring them through the lens of genre analysis-the evaluation of the structural designs that provide the framework for the player's experience. Each chapter in this volume attends to a unique game genre that is newly emerged or revisited, and often new under-addressed in critical scholarship to theorize where games are ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Epistemic Genres

    New Formations of Play

    Edited by Gerald A. Voorhees, Joshua Call, Dr. Matthew Wysocki, Betsy Brey ...
    Series series Approaches to Digital Game Studies
    This anthology brings together scholars from around the world to theorize and explore “epistemic genres” of digital games, which are defined by the social uses and meanings attributed to different constellations of games by the communities that play, make, and study them.Game studies has experienced a cultural turn in the last decade, centering the social dimensions of games and play. What ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies

    Edited by Dr. Matthew Wysocki, Dr. Steffi Shook ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies consists of a comprehensive collection of essays that review and supplement current work focusing on sex and sexuality in games.The chapters provide insight into sexual content in games, representation of various sexualities, and player experience. Together they contribute to a growing field of work concerning two, difficult to define, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Ctrl-Alt-Play

    Essays on Control in Video Gaming

    Edited by Matthew Wysocki ...
    The word "control" has many implications for video games. On a basic level, without player control, there is no experience. Much of the video game industry focuses on questions of control and ways to improve play to make the gamer feel more connected to the virtual world.The sixteen essays in this collection offer critical examinations of the issue of control in video games, including different ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

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    by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Communities of Play

    Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

    by Celia Pearce ...
    The odyssey of a group of “refugees” from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Video Games as Culture

    Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society

    by Daniel Muriel, Garry Crawford ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life.Video games are becoming an increasingly central part of our cultural lives, impacting on various aspects of everyday life such as our consumption, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Framing Fan Fiction

    Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities

    by Kristina Busse ...
    Gathering some of Kristina Busse’s essential essays on fan fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works and cultural documents. Drawing examples from a multitude of fan communities and texts, Busse frames fan fiction in three key ways: as individual ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • The Video Game Theory Reader 2

    Edited by Bernard Perron, Mark J.P. Wolf ...
    The Video Game Theory Reader 2 picks up where the first Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) left off, with a group of leading scholars turning their attention to next-generation platforms-the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360-and to new issues in the rapidly expanding field of video games studies. The contributors are some of the most renowned scholars working on video games ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media

    Edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, Benjamin J. Robertson ...
    The first systematic, comprehensive reference covering the ideas, genres, and concepts behind digital media.The study of what is collectively labeled “New Media”—the cultural and artistic practices made possible by digital technology—has become one of the most vibrant areas of scholarly activity and is rapidly turning into an established academic field, with many universities now offering it as a ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Game Studies

    by Frans Mayra ...
    An Introduction to Game Studies is the first introductory textbook for students of game studies. It provides a conceptual overview of the cultural, social and economic significance of computer and video games and traces the history of game culture and the emergence of game studies as a field of research.Key concepts and theories are illustrated with discussion of games taken from different ... Read more

    $108.79 CAD