Rob Gallagher

Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are uniquely capable of representing and exploring the effects of digitization on day-to-day life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315390925
• Artikelnr.: 48799292

Autorenporträt

Rob Gallagher is a postdoctoral researcher based at King's College London, UK. As part of the Ego-Media team, his research addresses the impact of new technologies on notions of identity and practices of self-presentation. His work has appeared in Games and Culture, Film Criticism and The New Inquiry.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Digital Subjects: Videogames, Technology and Identity
2. Datafied Subjects: Profiling and Personal Data
3. Private Subjects: Secrecy, Scandal and Surveillance
4. Beastly Subjects: Bodies and Interfaces
5. Synthetic Subjects: Horror and Artificial Intelligence
6. Mobile Subjects: Framing Selves and Spaces
7. Productive Subjects: Time, Value and Gendered Feelings