Understanding Counterplay in Video Games - Couverture souple

Meades, Alan F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138548693 ISBN 13 : 9781138548695

Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames: antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of exploits, illicit game modifications, and system hacking, known collectively as counterplay. Using ethnographic research, Alan Meades not only to gives voice to counterplayers, but reframes counterplay as a complex practice with contradictory motivations that is anything but reducible to simply being hostile to play, players, or commercial videogames. The book offers a grounded and pragmatic exploration of counterplay, framing it as an unavoidable by-product of interaction of mass audiences with compelling and culturally important texts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan F.Meades is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138548693
• ISBN 13: 9781138548695
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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