The Business and Culture of Digital Games: Gamework and GameplaySAGE, 06/04/2006 - 177 من الصفحات This book explores the lifecycle of digital games. Drawing upon a broad range of media studies perspectives with aspects of sociology, social theory, and economics, Aphra Kerr explores this all-pervasive, but under-theorized, aspect of our media environment. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Why use the term digital games? | 3 |
Theoretical approach | 4 |
Structure of the book | 8 |
DIGITAL GAMES AS TEXT | 11 |
Digital games as media text | 20 |
Digital game genres | 38 |
Summary | 41 |
Summary | 101 |
DIGITAL GAME PLAYERS GAME PLEASURES AND PLAY CONTEXTS | 103 |
Digital game players and demographics | 106 |
preferences and pleasures | 112 |
Play contexts | 124 |
Summary | 128 |
NONENTERTAINMENT USES OF DIGITAL GAMES | 129 |
Digital games and learning theories | 130 |
DIGITAL GAMES AS CULTURAL INDUSTRY | 43 |
The digital games industry as cultural industry | 44 |
The structure of the games industry | 52 |
Key trends in the digital games industry | 66 |
Summary | 73 |
GLOBAL NETWORKS AND CULTURES OF PRODUCTION | 75 |
Global networks of production | 76 |
The production process | 79 |
Configuring and understanding game players | 96 |
Digital games and learning in different contexts | 132 |
Government promotion of media | 142 |
Summary | 144 |
CONCLUSION | 147 |
Implications for social theory | 154 |
References | 159 |
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