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Wordplay and the discourse of video games: analyzing words, design, and play
In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into gam…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415893060
- Collation
- x, 220 p. ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture
- Call Number
- [KOM-LIB-206]
The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies
The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade, but the field has produced few comprehensive reference works. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, aims to address the ongoing theoretical and methodological development of game studies, providing stu…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780415533324
- Collation
- xxiv, 518 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Series Title
- Routledge companions
- Call Number
- [KOM-LIB-205]
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