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  • Playful Participatory Practices

    Theoretical and Methodological Reflections

    Edited by Pablo Abend, Benjamin Beil, Vanessa Ossa ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The volume addresses the matter of participatory media practices as playful appropriations within current digital media culture and artistic research. The aim is to explore and trace the shifting boundaries between media production and media use, and to develop concepts and methodologies that work within participatory media cultures. Therefore the articles explore and establish nuanced approaches ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Paratextualizing Games

    Investigations on the Paraphernalia and Peripheries of Play

    Edited by Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Hanns Christian Schmidt ...
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    Gaming no longer only takes place as a ›closed interactive experience‹ in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology examines ... Read more

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  • Playful Materialities

    The Stuff That Games Are Made Of

    Edited by Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Hanns Christian Schmidt, Raven Rusch ...
    Series series
    Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by ... Read more

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  • Eurogames

    The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games

    by Stewart Woods ...
    While board games can appear almost primitive in the digital age, eurogames--also known as German-style board games--have increased in popularity nearly concurrently with the rise of video games. Eurogames have simple rules and short playing times and emphasize strategy over luck and conflict. This book examines the form of eurogames, the hobbyist culture that surrounds them, and the way that ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Computer Art

    by Dominic Lopes ...
    What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the basic tenets of traditional ways of thinking about and making art and that to understand computer art we need to place ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Games | Game Design | Game Studies

    An Introduction (With Contributions by André Czauderna, Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman) - English Edition

    by Gundolf S. Freyermuth ...
    How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic analysis of the new medium's social effects and cultural meaning develop? Addressing these fundamental questions and aspects of digital game culture in a holistic way for the first time, Gundolf S. ... Read more

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  • Teaching Graphic Design History

    by Steven Heller ...
    An Examination of the Practice Through the YearsTeaching the history of graphic design cannot simply be outlined by dates nor confined by places, but is defined by concepts and philosophies, as well as those who made, make, and inspire them. Teaching Graphic Design History is the first collection of essays, syllabi, and guides for conveying the heritage of this unique practice, from traditional ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Metagaming

    Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

    by Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as “games about games,” metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renaissance painting, algorithmic trading, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • 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

    $87.29 USD

  • 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

    $39.39 USD

  • How Pac-Man Eats

    by Noah Wardrip-Fruin ...
    How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia.In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah Wardrip-Fruin considers two questions: What are the fundamental ways that games work? And how can games be about something? Wardrip-Fruin argues that the two issues are related. Bridging formalist and culturally engaged approaches, ... Read more

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  • In Your Computer

    by Domenico Quaranta ...
    «There is this hacker slogan: “We love your computer.” We also get inside people's computers. And we are honored to be in somebody's computer. You are very close to a person when you are on his desktop.» Jodi, 1997 This book is a collection of texts written by Domenico Quaranta between 2005 and 2010 for exhibition catalogues, printed magazines and online reviews: a pocket version of what the ... Read more

    $1.12 USD