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Understanding Counterplay In Video Games
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Author : Alan F. Meades
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-05
Understanding Counterplay In Video Games written by Alan F. Meades and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-05 with Computers categories.
This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames: antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of exploits, illicit game modifications, and system hacking, known collectively as counterplay. Using ethnographic research, Alan Meades not only to gives voice to counterplayers, but reframes counterplay as a complex practice with contradictory motivations that is anything but reducible to simply being hostile to play, players, or commercial videogames. The book offers a grounded and pragmatic exploration of counterplay, framing it as an unavoidable by-product of interaction of mass audiences with compelling and culturally important texts.
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Author : Robert Tanenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-10-10
Counterplay written by Robert Tanenbaum and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-10 with Fiction categories.
When corrupt, would-be mayor Andrew Kane escapes from prison, he has plans on killing Butch Karp and his family by joining forces with a terrorist group and organizing a major attack in New York City.
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Author : Robert R. Desjarlais
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-03-22
Counterplay written by Robert R. Desjarlais and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-22 with Social Science categories.
"Counterplay explores the inner world of a chess player and examines how we attempt to make meaning from the game and the forms of life that surround it. Desjarlais's personal account skillfully illustrates the absorbing, enchanting, and exacting qualities of chess, while also highlighting the penury, disillusion and pettiness that regretfully permeate the game."—Jonathan Rowson, PhD, Grandmaster and British Chess Champion (2004-2006) "This book is replete with deeply researched and closely observed details, small dramas, intriguing insights, compelling anecdotes and potted biographies—all interwoven with great authorial skill and intelligence. This is a superb introduction to the 'lifeworld' of chess that affords glimpses into the psychology of players and touches on the social and political dimensions of competitive chess. In every chapter, Desjarlais offers alluring suggestions as to what kinds of satisfaction different people find in playing chess."—Michael D. Jackson, author of The Palm at the End of the Mind
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Author : Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-03-22
Counterplay written by Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-22 with Social Science categories.
"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new "anthropology of passion." Immersing us directly in chess’s intricate culture, he interweaves small dramas, closely observed details, illuminating insights, colorful anecdotes, and unforgettable biographical sketches to elucidate the game and to reveal what goes on in the minds of experienced players when they face off over the board. Counterplay offers a compelling take on the intrigues of chess and shows how themes of play, beauty, competition, addiction, fanciful cognition, and intersubjective engagement shape the lives of those who take up this most captivating of games.
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Author : Dennis Norman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Counterplay written by Dennis Norman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Gaming Rhythms
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Author : Tom Apperley
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-06-16
Gaming Rhythms written by Tom Apperley and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-16 with Computers categories.
"Global gaming networks are heterogenous collectives of localized practices, not unified commercial products. Shifting the analysis of digital games to local specificities that build and perform the global and general, Gaming Rhythms employs ethnographic work conducted in Venezuela and Australia to account for the material experiences of actual game players. This book explores the materiality of digital play across diverse locations and argues that the dynamic relation between the everyday life of the player and the experience of digital game play can only be understood by examining play-practices in their specific situations." -- Website.
History In Games
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Author : Martin Lorber
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2020-10-31
History In Games written by Martin Lorber and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-31 with Social Science categories.
Where do we end up when we enter the time machine that is the digital game? One axiomatic truth of historical research is that the past is the time-space that eludes human intervention. Every account made of the past is therefore only an approximation. But how is it that strolling through ancient Alexandria can feel so real in the virtual world? Claims of authenticity are prominent in discussions surrounding the digital games of our time. What is historical authenticity and does it even matter? When does authenticity or the lack thereof become political? By answering these questions, the book illuminates the ubiquitous category of authenticity from the perspective of historical game studies.
Exploring Videogames Culture Design And Identity
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Author : Nick Webber
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Exploring Videogames Culture Design And Identity written by Nick Webber and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Social Science categories.
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. This volume brings together perspectives on videogames and interactive entertainment from film and media studies, Russian studies, health, philosophy and human-computer interaction, among others. It includes theoretically and practically-informed explorations of the nature of games, their design and development, and their communities and culture.
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Author : S.A. Van
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-04-20
Counterplay written by S.A. Van and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-20 with Cape May (N.J.) categories.
Kidnapping, murder, seduction. Not your average summer vacation. Finding a mysterious letter at her family's beach house, young teacher Jenna Reed is propelled into a web of deceit.
Global Perspectives On Digital Literature
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Author : Torsa Ghosal
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-22
Global Perspectives On Digital Literature written by Torsa Ghosal and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century explores how digital literary forms shape and are shaped by aesthetic and political exchanges happening across languages and nations. The book understands "global" as a mode of comparative thinking and argues for considering various forms of digital literature—the popular, the avant-garde, and the participatory—as realizing and producing global thought in the twenty-first century. Attending to issues of both political and aesthetic representation, the book includes a diverse group of contributors and a wide-ranging corpus of texts, composed in a variety of languages and regions, including East and South Asia, parts of Europe, Latin America, North America, Australia, and Western Africa. The book’s contributors adopt an array of interpretive approaches to make visible new connections and possibilities engendered by cross-cultural encounters. Among other topics, they reflect on the shifting conditions for production and distribution of literature, participatory cultures and technological affordances of Web 2.0, the ever-changing dynamics of global and local forces, and fundamental questions, such as, "What do we mean when we talk about literature today?" and "What is the future of literature?"