In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames
have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms …

The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our
contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video …

Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white
males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold …

The event known as# GamerGate (GG) emphasized the need to take the study of game
culture seriously and pursue it across several platforms. It demonstrated how seemingly …

In the last decade our mobile phones have been infiltrated by angry birds, our computers by
leagues of legends and our social networks by pleas for help down on the farm. As digital …

Профессор Университета Лидса (Великобритания) Дэвид Хезмондалш проводит
анализ изменений в культурных индустриях начиная с 1980-х годов, а также …

The 2012 smash" Gangnam Style" by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of
Hallyu, the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have become a …

The objective of this book is to introduce the specialized translation sub-domain known as
“game localization”(Chandler 2005) within the more established domain of localization. In …

This accessible textbook gives students the tools they need to analyze games using
strategies borrowed from textual analysis. As the field of game studies grows, videogame …