Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of
dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in …

The links between popular culture and politics are often referred to–sometimes dismissively,
sometimes seriously. They are dismissed when it is thought that popular culture diminishes …

The promotional and academic discourse surrounding new media suggests that they offer
more fun and more pleasure than existing or traditional media. However, academic work …

Playing a game, like reading a novel, can be regarded as a form of semiosis, an interaction
of signs. This constitutes the basic similarity between games and literature the following …

What is new about the new media? This question has been asked by many researchers in
the field of new media studies, but has not yet been answered in a satisfactory way …

This paper considers the popularity and social significance of the gaming series
Championship Manager/Football Manager. Sport-related games continue to be one of the …

While the relatively new medium of the computer game has elicited an increasing amount of
academic attention from a variety of disciplines in the last few years, research on perspective …

This paper proposes that the technical limitations at the time of a game? s creation have an
enormous impact on the overall aesthetic of any specific game, and also the traditions of the …

Marco Polo is believed to have traveled about 14.000 miles during his lifetime; Ibn Battuta,
the great Arab explorer of the middle ages, managed about 75.000. But both were dwarfed …

Che cos' è il potenziamento cognitivo? Quali sono le condizioni che lo rendono realmente
efficace nel promuovere il successo scolastico di bambini e ragazzi? Il gioco computerizzato …