Paratextualizing Games: Investigations on the Paraphernalia and Peripheries of Play

Gaming no longer only takes place as a ›closed interactive experience‹ in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a consi...

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Other Authors: Beil, Benjamin (Editor), Freyermuth, Gundolf S. (Editor), Schmidt, Hanns Christian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Edition:1st ed
Series:Bild und Bit. Studien zur digitalen Medienkultur
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Online Access:DE-B1533
DE-860
DE-859
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Summary:Gaming no longer only takes place as a ›closed interactive experience‹ in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology examines which paratexts gaming cultures have produced - i.e., in which forms and formats and through which channels we talk (and write) about games - as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur? In short: How does the paratext change the text?
Item Description:Online resource; title from title screen (viewed November 28, 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (406 p.) 817 MB 4 SW-Abbildungen, 36 Farbabbildungen
ISBN:9783839454213

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