Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames

by Ian Bogost

Book Overview

An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties.

Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262514885
• ISBN13: 9780262514880
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher