Description: Understanding Counterplay in Video Games, Paperback by Meades, Alan F., ISBN 1138548693, ISBN-13 9781138548695, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames: antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of exploits, illicit game modifications, and system hacking, known collectively as counterplay. Using ethnographic research, Alan Meades not only to gives voice to counterplayers, but reframes counterplay as a complex practice with contradictory motivations that is anything but reducible to simply being hostile to play, players, or commercial videogames. Th offers a grounded and pragmatic exploration of counterplay, framing it as an unavoidable by-product of interaction of mass audiences with compelling and culturally important texts.
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Book Title: Understanding Counterplay in Video Games
Number of Pages: 204 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Understanding Counterplay in Video Games
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Media Studies, Digital Media / General, Video & Electronic
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: Alan F. Meades
Subject Area: Computers, Social Science, Games & Activities
Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies
Format: Trade Paperback
