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Video Games as Culture

By Daniel Muriel

Video Games as Culture Media & Communication

Video Games as Culture

By Daniel Muriel

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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, communities, and identity formation. Drawing on new and original empirical data - including interviews with gamers, as well as key representatives from the video game industry, media, education, and cultural sector - Video Games as Culture not only considers contemporary video game culture, but also explores how video games provide important insights into the modern nature of digital and participatory culture, patterns of consumption and identity formation, late-modernity, and contemporary political rationalities. This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields such Video Games, Sociology and Media and Cultural Studies. It will also be useful for those interested in the wider role of culture, technology and consumption in the transformation of society, identities and communities.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
210
Release Date:
2018-03-19
Publication Date:
2018-03-20
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1138655104
ISBN13:
9781138655102
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
485 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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