Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon

PETER BERGER is a software developer for AppleIAN BOGOST is Assostant Professor of Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAJEFFREY P. CAIN is Associate Professor of English, Sacred Heart University, USASVEN O. CAVALCANTI is at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology, Hanover University, GermanyDEAN CHAN is Research Fellow, School of Communications and Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University, AustraliaJOOST VAN DREUNEN is at Columbia University, USALYNDA DYSON is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, UKMAIA ENGELI is Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, CanadaTILO HARTMANN is Research Assistant, Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandCLAUDIA HERBST is Associate Professor, Department of Digital Art, Pratt Institute, USAHENRY JENKINS is the Deflorz Profesor of Humanities and the Co-Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT, USA CHRISTOPH KLIMMT is Research Assistant, Hanover University of Music and Drama, GermanyDEAN LOCKWOOD is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory, University of LincolnHENRY LOWOOD is Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections, Stanford University, USAMASSIMO MAIETTI is a researcher in the field of semiotics of interactive mediaNOWELL MARSHALL is at the University of California, Riverside, USAANDREAS NOSPER is Project Manager for the media and marketing consulting agency Aserto in Hanover, GermanyCINDY POREMBA is a digital media theorist working at Montreal's Concordia University, CanadaDAPHNÉE RENTFROW is at Brown University, USATONY RICHARDS teaches video and new media theory at University of LincolnDORIS C. RUSCH is fellow at the Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology, Vienna University of Technology, AustriaHANNAH SCHMID is a research executive at the market research company Synovate in Munich, GermanyWILL SLOCOMBE is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literatuve, University of Wales, UKKURT SQUIRE is Assistant Professor of Educational Comunicatons and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAPETER VORDERER is Professor of Communication and Psychology, Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, USA