Replayed - Essential Writings on Software Preservation and Game Histories

A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.
Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations, establishing himself as a major scholar in the field of game studies. His voluminous writings have tackled subject matter spanning the history of game design and development, military simulation, table-top games, machinima, e-sports, wargaming, and historical software archives and collection development. Replayed consolidates Lowood's far-flung and significant publications on these subjects into a single volume.

About the author

Henry E. Lowood is the Harold C. Hohbach Curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections and the Curator of the Film and Media Collections at Stanford University Libraries.Raiford Guins is a professor and the director of cinema and media studies in the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Lowood, Henry (Harold C. Hohbach Curator for Histo Lowood, Henry (Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Lowood, Henry E. Lowood, Henry E. (Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Lowood, Lowood Henry
• Assisted by: Raiford Guins (Editor), Raiford (Professor and Director of Cinema and Media Studies Guins (Editor), Guins Raiford (Editor), Kirschenbaum Matthew G. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781421445946
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4594-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, HISTORY / Essays, COMPUTERS / History, General and world history, History of engineering & technology, History of Computing, digital and information technologies