Games | Game Design | Game Studies; . - An Introduction

How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic analysis of the new medium's social effects and cultural meaning develop?
Addressing these fundamental questions and aspects of digital game culture in a holistic way for the first time, Gundolf S. Freyermuth's introduction outlines the media-historical development phases of analog and digital games, the history and artistic practices of game design, as well as the history, academic approaches, and most important research topics of game studies.
With contributions by André Czauderna, Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman.

About the author

Prof. Dr. phil. Gundolf S. Freyermuth lehrt Angewandte Medienwissenschaft an der Internationalen Filmschule Köln und ist Gründungsdirektor des Cologne Game Lab. Er forscht zu digitaler Audiovisualität, Cross- bzw. Transmedialität, Games und Netzwerkkultur.

Product details

• Authors: Gundolf S Freyermuth, Gundolf S. Freyermuth
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9783837629835
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-2983-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 478 g
• Series: Edition Medienwissenschaft; Edition Medienwissenschaft 20; Edition Medienwissenschaft; Edition Medienwissenschaft 20
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Soziologie, Medientheorie, Medienwissenschaft, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Populäre Kultur, neue Medien, Hobbys, Rätsel und Spiele, Kommunikationsdesign, Soziologie: Sport und Freizeit, Populärkultur, Internet / Politik, Gesellschaft, Trivialkultur, Elektronische Medien, Medien, Neue, Soziologie / Sport, Freizeit, Spiel - Spieler, Design / Kommunikationsdesign, Video Games; History of Games; Media Studies; Audio-visuality; Media; Internet; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Digital Media