Games are Not
How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are "e;just games"e;? How do we reconcile accusations that games make us violent and antisocial and unproductive with the realization that games are a universal source of human joy?In Game are not, David Myers demonstrates that these controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of games are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's paradoxical aesthetic form. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781526121660
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017