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Libro 4 di 25: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

Meades, Alan F.

 
9781138804920: Understanding Counterplay in Video Games
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ISBN 10: 1138804924 ISBN 13: 9781138804920
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Sinossi

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1138804924
ISBN 13 
9781138804920
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
204
Contatto del produttore
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