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Devin C. Griffiths Virtual Ascendance (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Virtual Ascendance : Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
- Publication Name
- Virtual Ascendance
- Title
- Virtual Ascendance
- Subtitle
- Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1442216948
- EAN
- 9781442216945
- ISBN
- 9781442216945
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Genre
- Computers, Games & Activities
- Topic
- Programming / Games, Digital Media / Video & Animation, Video & Electronic
- Release Year
- 2013
- Release Date
- 19/09/2013
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Number of Pages
- 234 Pages
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From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike. Business and entertainment, health and medicine, politics and war, social interaction and education, all fall under its influence. Virtual Ascendance tells the story of a formerly fringe enterprise that, when few were paying attention, exploded into a multi-billion dollar industry affecting the very way we live. Griffiths paints a thorough and vivid picture of the video game industry, illuminating the various, and often bizarre, ways it's changing how we work, play and live. He brings readers along on his own journey of discovery, from the back room of a small Irish pub where members of the second-largest industry enclave meet each month, to a university clinic where the Wii is being used to treat Parkinson's sufferers -- and everywhere in between. Virtual Ascendance is more than just a story about video games, though. It's the story of an awakening, of a realization that a childhood pastime has exploded into a thriving enterprise -- one rooted in entertainment but whose tendrils reach into virtually all aspects of life and society.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1442216948
ISBN-13
9781442216945
eBay Product ID (ePID)
168353618
Product Key Features
Book Title
Virtual Ascendance : Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Programming / Games, Digital Media / Video & Animation, Video & Electronic
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Computers, Games & Activities
Number of Pages
234 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv1469.3.G74 2013
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Reading Virtual Ascendence is like playing a great videogame e" the paths taken are often surprising, the environment is rendered in engaging detail, and the characters are richly drawn. From casual games to war games, Devin Griffiths writes with a warmly intellectual sense of wonder, purpose and play., This slim volume (171 pages of text) will be an eye-opener for anyone wanting to understand the world of gaming from a sociological viewpoint. Griffiths (who runs his own business communication company) is quick to both acknowledge and dispel cultural clichs surrounding gamers (geeks and dorks, socially maladjusted young males), and in a sense, this is the key to the book. While providing a concise popular history of computer and console gaming, the author demonstrates that gamers and gaming are pervasive in contemporary society-to an extent that few are aware of. He points to the money generated by the industry, to its emerging champion players, and to its prominence in all forms of media. This book should be required reading for legislators as they grapple with violence and attempt to link it to video gaming, if only to force them to look at the phenomenon in its entirety. It is an excellent primer on video gaming and its present place in culture. Summing Up: Essential. All readers., This slim volume (171 pages of text) will be an eye-opener for anyone wanting to understand the world of gaming from a sociological viewpoint. Griffiths (who runs his own business communication company) is quick to both acknowledge and dispel cultural clichés surrounding gamers (geeks and dorks, socially maladjusted young males), and in a sense, this is the key to the book. While providing a concise popular history of computer and console gaming, the author demonstrates that gamers and gaming are pervasive in contemporary society-to an extent that few are aware of. He points to the money generated by the industry, to its emerging champion players, and to its prominence in all forms of media. This book should be required reading for legislators as they grapple with violence and attempt to link it to video gaming, if only to force them to look at the phenomenon in its entirety. It is an excellent primer on video gaming and its present place in culture. Summing Up: Essential. All readers., Reading Virtual Ascendence is like playing a great videogame - the paths taken are often surprising, the environment is rendered in engaging detail, and the characters are richly drawn. From casual games to war games, Devin Griffiths writes with a warmly intellectual sense of wonder, purpose and play., Virtual Ascendance is an excellent descriptive account of the increasingly widespread use of digital games in our lives, from serious games to playful entertainment., Videogames matter. Probably more than you even realize. And here Devin Griffiths sets out, in an informed and engaging manner, exactly why and how they matter. From hardcore gamers, to those with a passing interest, or even for those with no knowledge of gaming at all, this book will tell you what you need to know, and why you need to know it., His brief history of gaming time periods is well-researched, and never once do you question his enthusiasm....he clearly has an affection and wistfulness for his subject, and a desire to see their wonders go even further mainstream than they already are. At best, Virtual Ascendance is an enthusiastic piece, perfect for the gamers and open-minded parents of gamers who don't understand the background behind their favorite flashing lights and sounds.
Table of Content
Introduction1: Down The Rabbit HoleI Am Therefore I Game2: From The Coin-op To The Console: How Did We Get Here? Let The Games Begin1972: A Pong Odyssey3: Let The Games Begin: Competitive Videogaming And The Birth Of The CyberathleteCyberathletes And The Leagues Who Love Them4: Alphabet Soup: MMOs, MUDs, And RPGs--D&D In The 21st Century5: No Console Required: Casual Games (or, Gaming For The Rest Of Us)6: Dressed For The Symphony: Videogames Take Center Stage7: From The Flat Screen To The Big Screen: Videogames Invade HollywoodStar Wars 1313: The Empire Strikes Back8: Virtual Life9: And We Are Merely Players: Videogames And SocietyGood Enough For Government Work: CDC Gets Into The Game10: Games For HealthFrom Rehab to Wii-hab:Using Videogames to Heal11: War Games: Combat Evolved12: It's William Gibson's World, We're Just Living In ItBibliography
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2013-015487
Dewey Decimal
794.8
Dewey Edition
23
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