Alan F. Meades

Understanding Counterplay in Video Games (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames-antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of exploits, illicit game modifications, and system hacking, known collectively as counterplay.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317618799
• Artikelnr.: 43075146

Autorenporträt

Alan F.Meades is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1. Oppositional Play and the Discourses of Legitimacy 2. Watching from Beyond
The Challenges of Studying Oppositional User Generated Content 3. Griefing
Dominating and Controlling other Players 4. Glitching
(Bending) Finding, Sharing and Using Videogame Exploits 5. Hacking
The Production of Modified Consoles 6. Modding and System Hacking
The Utilisation of Modified Consoles 7. Contextualising Oppositional Play