Ethnographies of the Videogame Free

Author: Helen Thornham
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0754679780

Ethnographies of the Videogame

"Ethnographies of the Videogame" uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media, interaction, identity, performance, memory and mediation. Get Ethnographies of the Videogame computer books for free.
Addressing questions of how we interpret, mediate and use media texts, particularly in the face of claims about the power of new media to continuously shift the parameters of lived experience, gaming is employed as a 'tool' through which we can understand the gendered and socio-culturally constructed phenomenon of our everyday engagement with media. This book is particularly concerned with issues of agency and power, identifying strong correlations between perceptions of gaming and actual gaming practices, as well as the reinforcement, through gaming, of Check Ethnographies of the Videogame our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.