Computer Games and the Social Imaginary - Couverture souple

Kirkpatrick, Graeme

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745641113 ISBN 13 : 9780745641119

Editeur : Polity Press, 2013

Synopsis

In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age.

Tracing the origins of gaming to the revival of play in the 1960s counter culture, Computer Games and the Social Imaginary describes how the energies of that movement transformed computer technology from something ugly and machine-like into a world of colour and 'fun'. In the process, play with computers became computer gaming - a new cultural practice with its own values.

From the late 1980s gaming became a resource for people to draw upon as they faced the challenges of life in a new, globalizing digital economy. Gamer identity furnishes a revivified capitalism with compliant and 'streamlined' workers, but at times gaming culture also challenges the corporations that control game production.

Analysing topics such as the links between technology and power, the formation of gaming culture and the subjective impact of play with computer games, this insightful text will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media, games studies and the information society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Graeme Kirkpatrick is senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Manchester.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745641113
• ISBN 13: 9780745641119
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible