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Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society

Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society

Muriel, Daniel
Crawford, Garry

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Games & Activities GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138655104
ISBN13: 9781138655102
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 20 2018
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life.

Video games are becoming an increasingly central part of our cultural lives, impacting on various aspects of everyday life such as our consumption, communities, and identity formation. Drawing on new and original empirical data - including interviews with gamers, as well as key representatives from the video game industry, media, education, and cultural sector - Video Games as Culture not only considers contemporary video game culture, but also explores how video games provide important insights into the modern nature of digital and participatory culture, patterns of consumption and identity formation, late modernity, and contemporary political rationalities.

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