Game Work

Author: Ken S. McAllister
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00571F0J8

Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)

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As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of political, social, economic, rhetorical, and aesthetic analysis. Ken McAllister notes in his introduction to Game Work that, even though games are essentially impractical, they are nevertheless important mediating agents for the broad exercise of socio-political power.


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As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of political, social, economic, rhetorical, and aesthetic analysis


In considering how the languages, images, gestures, and sounds of video games influence those who play them, McAllister highlights the

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