Images in Play: How Filipino Women Co-Create Empowerment in Social Games - Softcover

Lapa PhD, Beatrice M.V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494812924 ISBN 13: 9781494812928

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

This book is about Filipino women players and their usage of social games, focusing specifically on social games on Facebook. The research looks at how Filipino women social gamers co-create images of identity and empowerment through play. Some of their communication practices can be expressed not only in the games, but also through the virtual communities provided by game development companies.

About this title

About the Author:

Beatrice M.V. Lapa, PhD, is crazy cat lady who happens to be an indie game producer and has been a web author since 1997. Her vocation is teaching, so she is an associate professorial lecturer at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and a Higher Education Professional at Asia Pacific College.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1494812924
• ISBN 13: 9781494812928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224