Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture and Marketing

Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture and Marketing

by NickDyer-Witheford (Author), Greigde Peuter (Author), StephenKline (Author)

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A uniquely critical study of video gaming that blends perspectives from political economy, cultural studies, and communications theory.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 424
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 31 Jul 2003

ISBN 10: 0773525912
ISBN 13: 9780773525917
Book Overview: A uniquely critical study of video gaming that blends perspectives from political economy, cultural studies, and communications theory.

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The authors are to be commended for undertaking this major history of the video game in our contemporary global economy. I am impressed with their research, and the arguments are convincingly developed using careful textual analysis and powerful graphic illustrations . Timothy W. Luke, Department of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University /// A useful and timely intervention into debates surrounding new technologies and emerging forms of economic and social configurations and cultural practices. Kevin Dowler, Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University
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