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  • The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality

    de Grant Tavinor ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality media in terms of the philosophy of the arts, comparing them to more familiar media such as painting, film and photography.When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always done so through the lens of metaphysics, asking questions about the reality of virtual items and ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • L’art des jeux vidéo

    de Grant Tavinor ...
    Series series Æsthetica
    Le jeu vidéo est l’un des phénomènes technologiques et culturels les plus importants de ces dernières décennies. Il continue pourtant d’avoir mauvaise presse, étant fréquemment perçu comme un divertissement abrutissant ou même comme une pratique nocive pour les joueurs et la société. Dans cet ouvrage, le philosophe néo-zélandais Grant Tavinor s’attaque à ces clichés dans le but de montrer que le ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Videogames

    Edición de Jon Robson, Grant Tavinor ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. Videogames represent one of the most significant developments in the modern popular arts, and it is a topic that is attracting much attention among philosophers of art and aestheticians. As a burgeoning medium of artistic expression, videogames raise entirely new aesthetic concerns, particularly ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

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  • Rules of Play

    Game Design Fundamentals

    de Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman ...
    Gain a deeper understanding of games and game design through 18 pioneering frameworks—with examples from board games, computer games, video games, and more.As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Life on the Screen

    de Sherry Turkle ...
    Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Game Design Reader

    A Rules of Play Anthology

    Edición de Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman ...
    Classic and cutting-edge writings on games, spanning nearly 50 years of game analysis and criticism, by game designers, game journalists, game fans, folklorists, sociologists, and media theorists.The Game Design Reader is a one-of-a-kind collection on game design and criticism, from classic scholarly essays to cutting-edge case studies. A companion work to Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman's textbook ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • The Art of Failure

    An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

    de Jesper Juul ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    A gaming academic offers a “fascinating” exploration of why we play video games—despite the unhappiness we feel when we fail at them (Boston Globe)We may think of video games as being “fun,” but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

    New Essays

    de Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Fantasy Role-Playing Game

    A New Performing Art

    de Daniel Mackay ...
    Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Communities of Play

    Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Glitch Art in Theory and Practice

    Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics

    de Michael Betancourt ...
    Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. While prior literature on glitch practice in visual arts has been divided between ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Literary Gaming

    de Astrid Ensslin ...
    A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works.In this book, Astrid Ensslin examines literary videogames—hybrid digital artifacts that have elements of both games and literature, combining the ludic and the literary. These works can be considered verbal art in the broadest sense (in that language plays ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD