Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences (Routledge Communication Series)

by: Peter Vorderer and Jennings Bryant

Hardcover: 601 pages

Publisher: Taylor and Francis (October 12 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0805853219

ISBN-13: 9780805853216
Book Description
From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory. Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences integrates communication, psychology, and technology to examine the psychological and mediated aspects of playing video games. It is the first volume to delve deeply into these aspects of computer game play. It fits squarely into the media psychology arm of entertainment studies, the next big wave in media studies. The book targets one of the most popular and pervasive media in mode times, and it will serve to define the area of study and provide a theoretical spine for future research.
This unique and timely volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in media studies and mass communication, psychology, and marketing.9780203873700_previewpdf.pdf (访问密码: 1024)