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Game work: language, power, and computer game culture

Ken S. McAllister
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • PART 1 | INTRODUCTION TO PART 1
  • 1. Studying the Computer Game Complex (page 5)
    • Computer Games as Mass Culture (page 9)
    • Computer Games as Mass Media (page 13)
    • Computer Games as Psychophysiological Force (page 14)
    • Computer Games as Economic Force (page 18)
    • Computer Games as Instructional Force (page 24)
    • So, Why Study Computer Games? (page 25)
  • 2. A Grammar of Gamework (page 27)
    • Rhetoric and Dialectic (page 29)
    • Propositions of the Gamework (page 31)
    • The Problematic of Play (page 34)
    • The Grammar of Gameworks: Analyzing the Computer Game Complex (page 41)
  • PART 2 | INTRODUCTION TO PART 2
  • 3. Capturing Imaginations: Rhetoric in the Art of Computer Game Development (page 71)
    • Rhetorical Functions Revisited (page 78)
    • Rhetoric in the Discourse of Game Developers (page 80)
    • Working Through the Grammar of Gameworks: Agents, Influences, Manifestations, and Transformative Locales (page 114)
  • 4. Making Meanings Out of Contradictions: The Work of Computer Game Reviewing (page 118)
    • Computer Game Reviewing Online (page 120)
    • Computer Game Reviewing in Print (page 126)
    • Playing Up Influence to Influence Play (page 129)
    • Reviewing the Meanings of the Computer Game Complex (page 139)
  • 5. The Economies of Black & White (page 140)
    • Defining Economies (page 144)
    • The "Purchase" of Natural Resources (page 149)
    • The "Purchase" of Spiritual Resources (page 154)
    • The "Purchase" of Temporal Resources (page 156)
    • The Work of Black and White (page 157)
    • Transformative Locales: Economic Force as Game Work (page 166)
  • Epilogue (page 169)
  • Appendices (page 171)
  • Notes (page 205)
  • Works Cited (page 219)
  • Index (page 227)
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Published: c2004
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780817381424 (ebook)
  • 9780817354206 (hardcover)
  • 9780817351250 (paper)
Subject
  • Rhetoric
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