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Computer Games : Text, Narrative, and Play by Carr, Diane & Buckingham, David & Burn, Andrew & Schott, Gareth is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Computer Games : Text, Narrative, and Play about?
Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just kids' stuff: the majority of players are now adults, and the market is constantly broadening. The visual style of games has become increasingly sophisticated, and the complexities of game-play are ever more challenging. Meanwhile,
Who reads Computer Games : Text, Narrative, and Play?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Carr, Diane & Buckingham, David & Burn, Andrew & Schott, Gareth
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745634012
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Computer Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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