Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity (Routledge Advances in Game Studies) - Softcover

Book 11 of 25: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

Gallagher, Rob

 
9780367885359: Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367885352 ISBN 13: 9780367885359
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are uniquely capable of representing and exploring the effects of digitization on day-to-day life. By modeling and incorporating new technologies (from artificial intelligence routines and data mining techniques to augmented reality interfaces), and by dramatizing the implications of these technologies for understandings of identity, nationality, sexuality, health and work, games encourage us to playfully engage with these issues in ways that traditional media cannot.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Rob Gallagher is a postdoctoral researcher based at King’s College London, UK. As part of the Ego-Media team, his research addresses the impact of new technologies on notions of identity and practices of self-presentation. His work has appeared in Games and Culture, Film Criticism and The New Inquiry.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367885352
ISBN 13 
9780367885359
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781138228986: Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  1138228982 ISBN 13:  9781138228986
Publisher: Routledge, 2017
Hardcover