Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity

by Rob Gallagher

Book Overview

This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are uniquely capable of representing and exploring the effects of digitization on day-to-day life. By modeling and incorporating new technologies (from artificial intelligence routines and data mining techniques to augmented reality interfaces), and by dramatizing the implications...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138228982
• ISBN13: 9781138228986
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"