Games | Game Design | Game Studies: An Introduction (Media Studies): 20 (Cultural and Media Studies) - Softcover

Gundolf S. Freyermuth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 383762983X ISBN 13: 9783837629835

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic analysis of the new medium's social effects and cultural meaning develop?

Addressing these fundamental questions and aspects of digital game culture in a holistic way for the first time, Gundolf S. Freyermuth's introduction outlines the media-historical development phases of analog and digital games, the history and artistic practices of game design, as well as the history, academic approaches, and most important research topics of game studies.

With contributions by André Czauderna, Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman.

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About the Author

Gundolf S. Freyermuth (Prof. Dr. phil.) is Professor of Media and Game Studies and founding co-director at the Cologne Game Lab of TH Koeln-University of Technology, Arts and Sciences, as well as Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the ifs international film school of Cologne. André Czauderna ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Cologne Game Lab der TH Köln, wo er u.a. für das Management und die Weiterentwicklung der Studiengänge BA und MA Digital Games zuständig ist. Außerdem unterrichtet er Media and Game Studies und forscht zu Lernprozessen in Strategie- und Managementspielen, Gaming Affinity Spaces und hochschulischer Games-Ausbildung. Er promovierte in Erziehungswissenschaft an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383762983X
• ISBN 13: 9783837629835
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296