Indie Games in the Digital Age by Clarke, M. J.

Indie Games in the Digital Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501356452)

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Format: Hardcover
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Indie Games in the Digital Age by Clarke, M. J.

Indie Games in the Digital Age

$150.00
Indie Games in the Digital Age by Clarke, M. J.

Indie Games in the Digital Age

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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A host of digital affordances, including reduced cost production tools, open distribution platforms, and ubiquitous connectivity, have engendered the growth of indie games among makers and users, forcing critics to reconsider the question of who makes games and why. Taking seriously this new mode of cultural produciton compells analysts to reconsider the blurred boundaries and relations of makers, users and texts as well as their respective relationship to cultural power and hierarchy. The contributions to Indie Games in the Digital Age consider these questions and examine a series of firms, makers, games and scenes, ranging from giants like Nintendo and Microsoft to grassroots games like Cards Against Humanity and Stardew Valley, to chart more precisely the productive and instructive disruption that this new site of cultural production offers.

Author: M. J. Clarke
ISBN-10: 1501356453
ISBN-13: 9781501356452
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2020
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
By M. J. Clarke
By M. J. Clarke
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M.J. Clarke is an assistant professor of TV Film and Media Studies at Cal State LA, USA. His research on popular culture and media industries has appeared in the journals Television and New Media and The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics as well as the anthologies Superhero Synergies and The Comics of Charles Schulz. His examination of network television at the end of the 20th Century, Transmedia Television, is available from Bloomsbury.

Cynthia Wang is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Cal State LA, USA. Her research takes a critical cultural perspective on how digital media and the Internet reconfigures social relations, cultural practices, and power dynamics. She has published in Social Media + Society, Time & Society, and Journalism Studies among others.

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