Exploring Minecraft: Ethnographies of Play and Creativity

by Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson, William Balmford, et al.

Book Overview

This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice. The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, and playful, and which moves ambivalently throughout...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030599078
• ISBN13: 9783030599072
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"