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  • From Microverse to Metaverse

    Modelling the Future through Today’s Virtual Worlds

    Serier serie Emerald Points
    While the metaverse is often marketed as a future utopia, the vision of the metaverse represents an attempt for private corporations to control the code of the real. In the hands of companies that established and maintain the surveillance capitalism model, the ability to build a persistent, all-compassing environment means all activity in that world can be metricized and commodified, making the ... Læs mere

    406,11 kr.

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  • Artificial Intelligence

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

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    Serier serie What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly. It is likely to greatly increase our aggregate wealth, but it will also upend our labor markets, reshuffle our social order, and strain our private and public institutions. Eventually it may alter how we see our place in the ... Læs mere

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  • Communities of Play

    Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

    af Celia Pearce ...
    The odyssey of a group of “refugees” from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play ... Læs mere

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  • Online Gaming in Context

    The social and cultural significance of online games

    Serier serie Routledge Advances in Sociology
    There is little question of the social, cultural and economic importance of video games in the world today, with gaming now rivalling the movie and music sectors as a major leisure industry and pastime. The significance of video games within our everyday lives has certainly been increased and shaped by new technologies and gaming patterns, including the rise of home-based games consoles, advances ... Læs mere

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  • Videogames

    af James Newman ...
    In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms. Newman’s volume considers how we might approach videogames as media texts to be read, experiences to be played and played with, systems and simulations to be decoded and interrogated, and performances to be captured, ... Læs mere

    482,70 kr.

  • Meme Life: The Social, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Memetic Communication

    af Shane Tilton ...
    Memes have been part of computer-assisted communication almost since the development of the first consumer browser (the "WorldWideWeb") in 1990. The Internet's ability to provide a public sphere for people to discuss the issues of the day and other topics of interest means that people can use the language of the Internet to express themselves in ways that would not be feasible in the real world. ... Læs mere

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies

    Serier serie Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume.Collaboratively authored by more than 40 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live-action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and ... Læs mere

    557,80 kr.

  • An Introduction to Game Studies

    af Frans Mayra ...
    An Introduction to Game Studies is the first introductory textbook for students of game studies. It provides a conceptual overview of the cultural, social and economic significance of computer and video games and traces the history of game culture and the emergence of game studies as a field of research.Key concepts and theories are illustrated with discussion of games taken from different ... Læs mere

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  • Hello Avatar

    Rise of the Networked Generation

    af B. Coleman ...
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  • Robot Journalism: Can Human Journalism Survive?

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing all aspects of communications and journalism as automatic processes are being introduced into all facets of classical journalism: investigation, content production, and distribution. Traditional human roles in these fields are being replaced by automatic processes and robots.The first section of this book focuses on a discussion of AI, the new emerging ... Læs mere

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  • Games and Gaming

    An Introduction to New Media

    Serier serie Berg New Media Series
    The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's Xbox, to platforms such as iPhones and online gaming worlds, the realm of games and their scope have become all-pervasive.The study of games is no longer a niche interest but rather an ... Læs mere

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  • LEGO Studies

    Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon

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    Since the "Automatic Binding Bricks" that LEGO produced in 1949, and the LEGO "System of Play" that began with the release of Town Plan No. 1 (1955), LEGO bricks have gone on to become a global phenomenon, and the favorite building toy of children, as well as many an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO). LEGO has also become a medium into which a wide number of media franchises, including Star Wars, Harry ... Læs mere

    482,70 kr.