Games Are Not: The Difficult and Definitive Guide to What Video Games Are

by David Myers

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How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are "just games"? How do we reconcile accusations that games make us violent and antisocial and unproductive with the realization that games are a universal source of human joy?
In Games are not, David Myers demonstrates that these controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1526121654

ISBN13:9781526121653

Release Date:August 2017

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"

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Games Social Science Social Sciences

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