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Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games

David Myers

Play Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature.

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Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity

Emily Chivers Yochim

Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding's portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media texts.

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Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, Editors

This collection of essays documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. While firmly rooted in concrete projects, Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina also addresses the larger issues raised by committed public scholarship.

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Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law

Richard L. Schur

Parodies of Ownership examines how contemporary African American writers, artists, and musicians have developed an artistic form that Schur terms "hip-hop aesthetics."

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Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque?

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Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom

Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, Editors

When most people think of wikis, the first—and usually the only—thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and practical issues that wikis raise.

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Best of Technology Writing 2008

Clive Thompson, Editor

The Best of Technology Writing 2008 the third volume in this annual series, proves that technology writing is a bona fide literary genre with some of the most stylish, compelling, and just plain readable work in journalism today.

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This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities

Jim Rossignol

This Gaming Life describes Rossignol's encounters in three cities: London, Seoul, and Reyjkavik. From his days as a Quake genius in London's increasingly corporate gaming culture; to Korea, where gaming is a high stakes televised national sport; to Iceland, the home of his ultimate obsession, the idiosyncratic and beguiling Eve Online, Rossignol introduces us to a vivid and largely undocumented world of gaming lives.

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The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age

Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors

This path-breaking collection of essays will be valuable to anyone interested in the now taken-for-granted connections that structure communication, commerce, and civic discourse in the world of digital media.

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Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation

Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel, and Sean O'Siochru

This book provides development practitioners with a wide overview of the key policy and regulatory issues involved in supporting freedom of information and expression and enabling development of a pluralistic, independent, and robust broadcasting sector.

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Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age

Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus, Editors

Both novice and experienced teachers of writing will learn from the contributors' practical suggestions about how to fashion unique assignments, teach about proper attribution, and increase students' involvement in their own writing.

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Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China

Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan, Editors

Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities—including the Chinese Communist Party itself—seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood.

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The Best of Technology Writing 2007

Steven Levy, Editor

Together the essays in The Best of Technology Writing 2007 capture the versatility and verve of technology writing today. Solicited through an open online nominating process, these pieces explore a wide range of intriguing topics—from "crowdsourcing" to the online habits of urban moms to the digital future of movie production. The Best of Technology Writing 2007 will appeal to anyone who enjoys stellar writing.

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The Best of Technology Writing 2006

Brendan I. Koerner, Editor

The Best of Technology Writing 2006 brings together some of the most important, timely, and just plain readable writing in the fast-paced, high-stakes field of technology.

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