Ian Bogost

Broschiertes Buch

How to Talk About Videogames

Beschreibung

Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that gamecritique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the termgames criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea,taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.

Autor

Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books, including How to Do Things with Videogames and Alien Phenomenology: Or, What It's Like to Be a Thing (both Minnesota), as well as Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism and Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. He is the award-winning game designer of A Slow Year, Cow Clicker, and more.

Produktdetails

• Electronic Mediations
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9780816699124
• ISBN-10: 0816699127
• Artikelnr.: 42651569