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Gaming Matters: Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium - Hardcover

Ruggill, Judd Ethan; McAllister, Ken S.

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9780817317379: Gaming Matters: Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0817317376 ISBN 13: 9780817317379
Publisher: University Alabama Press, 2011

Synopsis

In Gaming Matters, Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister offer a playful and provocative look at the computer game medium, arguing that games are:
 
* Idiosyncratic, and thus difficult to apprehend using the traditional tools of media study
* Irreconcilable, or complex to such a degree that developers, players, and scholars have contradictory ways of describing them
* Boring, and therefore obligated to constantly make demands
on players' attention
* Anachronistic, or built on age-old tropes and forms of play
while ironically bound to the most advanced technologies
* Duplicitous, or dependent on truth-telling rhetoric even when they are about fictions, fantasies, or lies
* Work, or are often better understood as labor rather than play
* Alchemical, despite seeming all-too mechanical or predictable
Video games are now inarguably a major site of worldwide cultural production.
 
In its assessments, Gaming Matters neither flatters game enthusiasts nor emboldens the medium's detractors. Instead, it provides a new set of lenses through which games can be examined, and in the process makes a significant contribution to the foundation of both computer game and new media studies.

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About the Author

Judd Ethan Ruggill (Arizona State University) and Ken S. McAllister (University of Arizona) co-direct the Learning Games Initiative (LGI), a transdisciplinary, inter-institutional research group that studies, teaches with, and builds computer games. They also curate one of the world’s largest research-oriented computer game archives, and have written and lectured extensively on the necessity of interdisciplinary collaboration, the politics of digital media, and the importance of play in scholarship.

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Publisher
University Alabama Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0817317376
ISBN 13 
9780817317379
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
168
Rating
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