by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
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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by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
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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by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
Interested in submitting a proposal for digitalculturebooks? We welcome work that mobilizes the insights and tools of cultural history, sociology, anthropology, and related disciplines, to explore fundamental issues within the new media landscape, including inequality, identity, learning, public health, work, and sociability. To ensure that your work receives proper attention, we ask that you submit […]
by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco, editors
The New Woman International is an interpretive study of the pictorial representation of New Womanhood as it emerged from the 1890s through the 1930s. The essays illustrate chronologically the broad geographical impact of this figure as well as the national and regional differences in representation.
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by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
Tamara Ketabgian
The Lives of Machines explores the emergence of a modern and more mechanical view of human nature in Victorian literature and culture. The Lives of Machines will be of interest to students of British literature and history, history of science and of technology, novel studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodern cultural studies.
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by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
Mark J. P. Wolf
Myst and Riven: The World of the D’ni is a close analysis of two of the most popular and significant video games in the history of the genre, investigating in detail their design, their functionality, and the gameplay experience they provide players.
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by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
W. Russell Neuman, Editor
In Media, Technology, and Society, some of the most prominent figures in media studies explore the issue of media evolution. Focusing on a variety of compelling examples in media history, ranging from the telephone to the television, the radio to the Internet, these essays collectively address a series of notoriously vexing questions about the nature of technological change.
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by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
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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by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
Series Editors Mark J. P. Wolf, Communication Department, Concordia University Wisconsin Bernard Perron, Art History and Film Studies Department, Université de Montréal Series Advisory Board Mia Consalvo, Ohio University David Myers, Loyola University New Orleans Tanya Krzywinska, Brunel University Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology Henry Lowood, Stanford University Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere Titles […]
by Korey Jackson on February 1, 2012
Bonnie Nardi
In My Life as a Night Elf Priest, Bonnie Nardi compiles more than three years of participatory research in Warcraft play and culture in the United States and China into this field study of player behavior and activity.
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