Michele (Hrsg.) Willson

Social, Casual and Mobile Games

The Changing Gaming Landscape

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Social, casual and mobile games, played on devices such as smartphones, tablets, or PCs and accessed through online social networks, have become extremely popular, and are changing the ways in which games are designed, understood, and played. These games have sparked a revolution as more people from a broader demographic than ever play games, shifting the stereotype of gaming away from that of hardcore, dedicated play to that of activities that fit into everyday life. Social, Casual and Mobile Games explores the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Leaver, Tama (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-5013-1058-4
EAN: 9781501310584
Produktnummer: 28596462
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'209 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 20 bw illus

Über den Autor

Michele Willson is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. She is the author of Technically Together: Rethinking Community within Techno-Society (2006) and co-author of A New Theory of Information and the Internet: Public Sphere meets Protocol (2006). She is Lead Investigator on Australia Research Council Linkage Grant, Online Money and Fantasy Games - an applied ethnographic study into the new entrepreneurial communities and their underlying designs. Tama Leaver is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology and Bodies (2012) and co-editor of An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World's Largest Social Network (2014). He is also a Chief Investigator on Australia Research Council Linkage Grant, Online Money and Fantasy Games - an applied ethnographic study into the new entrepreneurial communities and their underlying designs. Details at www.tamaleaver.net.