Video & Electronic: How to Do Things With Videogames
by
Ian Bogost
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Paperback Book Details
- Paperback
- 180 Pages
- Released: August 5, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Author: | Ian Bogost |
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Bogost, a leading scholar of videogames and an award-winning game designer, explores the many ways computer games are used today: documenting important historical and cultural events; educating both children and adults; promoting commercial products; and serving as platforms for art, pornography, exercise, relaxation, pranks, and politics. Examining these applications in a series of short, inviting, and provocative essays, he argues that together they make the medium broader, richer, and more relevant to a wider audience.
Bogost concludes that as videogames become ever more enmeshed with contemporary life, the idea of gamers as social identities will become obsolete, giving rise to gaming by the masses. But until games are understood to have valid applications across the cultural spectrum, their true potential will remain unrealized. How to Do Things with Videogames offers a fresh starting point to more fully consider games' progress today and promise for the future.
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- ISBN: 9780816676477
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