The Corruption of Play: Mapping the Ideological Play-Space of AAA Videogames by McMahon, Christopher

The Corruption of Play: Mapping the Ideological Play-Space of AAA Videogames (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781801177375)

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The Corruption of Play: Mapping the Ideological Play-Space of AAA Videogames by McMahon, Christopher

The Corruption of Play: Mapping the Ideological Play-Space of AAA Videogames

$99.99
The Corruption of Play: Mapping the Ideological Play-Space of AAA Videogames by McMahon, Christopher

The Corruption of Play: Mapping the Ideological Play-Space of AAA Videogames

$99.99
Format: Hardcover
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The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play.

Author: Christopher McMahon
ISBN-10: 1801177376
ISBN-13: 9781801177375
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2022
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.06w x 0.63d
By Christopher McMahon
By Christopher McMahon
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Christopher McMahon teaches at the University of Liverpool, UK, where he received his doctorate from the department of Communication and Media. His research looks at how videogame consumption is used to establish fragments of identity.

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