Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences (Routledge Communication Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805853227 ISBN 13: 9780805853223

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory. Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences integrates communication, psychology, and technology to examine the psychological and mediated aspects of playing video games. It is the first volume to delve deeply into these aspects of computer game play. It fits squarely into the media psychology arm of entertainment studies, the next big wave in media studies. The book targets one of the most popular and pervasive media in modern times, and it will serve to define the area of study and provide a theoretical spine for future research.

This unique and timely volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in media studies and mass communication, psychology, and marketing.

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About the Author

Vorderer Peter

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805853227
• ISBN 13: 9780805853223
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Vorderer Peter, Bryant Jennings