Respawn - Colin Milburn

Respawn

Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0292-5 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
Colin Milburn examines the relationships between video games, hackers, and science fiction, showing how games provide models of social and political engagement, critique, and resistance while offering a vital space for players and hacktivists to challenge centralized power and experiment with alternative futures.
In Respawn Colin Milburn examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Discussing a wide range of games, from Portal and Final Fantasy VII to Super Mario Sunshine and Shadow of the Colossus, Milburn illustrates how they impact the lives of gamers and non-gamers alike. They also serve as resources for critique, resistance, and insurgency, offering a space for players and hacktivist groups such as Anonymous to challenge obstinate systems and experiment with alternative futures. Providing an essential walkthrough guide to our digital culture and its high-tech controversies, Milburn shows how games and playable media spawn new modes of engagement in a computerized world.

Colin Milburn is Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities and Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, and Cinema and Digital Media at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter and Nanovision: Engineering the Future, both also published by Duke University Press.

Introduction. All Your Base  1
1. May the Lulz Be with You  25
2. Obstinate Systems  51
3. Still Inside  78
4. Long Live Play  102
5. We Are Heroes  134
6. Green Machine  172
7. Pwn  199
Conclusion. Save Point  217
Acknowledgments  227
Notes  231
Bibliography  271
Index  293

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Experimental Futures
Zusatzinfo 88 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Informatik Weitere Themen Computerspiele
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4780-0292-1 / 1478002921
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-0292-5 / 9781478002925
Zustand Neuware
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