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University of Alabama Press, University Alabama Press
Language
English
Pages
232

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Subjects
Social aspects, Social aspects of Computer games, Computerspelen, Electronic games industry, Computerkunst, Populaire cultuur, Computer games, Electronic games, Biography, History

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Table of Contents

1. Studying the computer game complex
Computer games as a mass culture
Computer games as mass media
Computer games as psychophysiological force
Computer games as economic force
Computer games as instructional force
So, why study computer games?
2. A grammar of gamework
Rhetoric and dialectic
Propositions of the gamework
The problematic of play
The grammar of gameworks: analyzing the computer game complex
3. Capturing imaginations: rhetoric in the art of computer game development
Rhetorical functions revisited
Rhetoric in the discourse of game developers
Working through the grammar of gameworks: agents, influences, manifestations, and transformative locales
4. Making meanings out of contradictions: the work of computer game reviewing
Computer game reviewing online
Computer game reviewing in print
Playing up influence to influence play
Reviewing the meanings of the computer game complex
5. The economies of black & white
Defining economies
The "purchase" of natural resources
The "purchase" of spiritual resources
The "purchase" of temporal resources
The work of black & white
Transformative locales: economic force as game work.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226) and index.

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Tuscaloosa, Ala
Series
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

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Library of Congress
GV1469.17.S63 M33 2004, GV1469.17.S63 M33 2004, F326.C6 N8 2005, F326.C6N8 2005, GV1469.17.S63M33

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xiv, 232 p. :
Number of pages
232

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OL18250406M
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0817314180, 0817351256
LCCN
2004010252, 2005004448
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2012250
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2354439

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