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The Nature of Computer Games

Play as Semiosis

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

What is the nature of computer games, and what happens when we play them? This book describes human play as a semiotic process and computer game play as a fundamental act of human cognition, or «semiosis». Offering one of the first fully articulated theories of computer games based on game play rather than game texts, mounts a serious challenge to literary critics, cultural theorists, and others who might assume computer game play is best understood with reference to preexisting social contexts. David Myers argues that computer game play displays a fundamentally intractable, self-reflexive structure – analogous to certain structures of thought – integral to language, consciousness, and our sense of self.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-0-8204-6700-9 / 978-0820467009 / 9780820467009

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2003

Seiten: 202

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): David Myers

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