Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Virtual and Actual Worlds; 2 Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play; 3 Microethology: Methods for Studying Gameworlds; 4 Media Worlds; 5 Soft Worlds: Play with Computers; 6 Play Grounds: The Material and Immaterial in Play; 7 Real Worlds: Realities, Virtualities and the Protopolitics of Play; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual and virtual worlds of play in everyday life. He addresses both the continuities and differences between digital play and longer-established modes of play. The ''gameworlds'' title indicates both the virtual world designed into the videogame and the wider environments in which play is manifested
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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