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E-book Games Without Frontiers : Socio-historical Perspectives at the Gaming/Gambling Intersection

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I have a confession. I’m not a gamer. Or so I thought. I was having thisconversation with a good colleague of mine, sat outside the train stationin a surprisingly sunny Sheffield: “Really” he said, looking puzzled, “noteven something on your phone?”“oh well, now you come to mention it.....”.That was the point I realised that perhaps I was a gamer after all, justa particular sort. The sort who has one or two favourite games on their phone and pulls them out when they are bored (I reached my highestscore on one game on a particularly long and tedious flight). I wasalso, until the COVID-19 pandemic restricted travel, an avid puzzler—Sudoku being the poison of choice—timing myself on how quickly Icould complete this on my commute home. The more I thought aboutit, the more I realised that games, especially digital games, were moreof a feature of my life than I’d ever given them credit for. I remem-bered playing Space Invaders on my brother’s hand-me-down console;getting my first Donkey Kong handset for Christmas (both long beforewe ever had a computer in the house); sitting with my big brother andplaying Sonic when he got his first Mega Drive or the long nights playingMario Kart after a session at our college bar (another confession, not alot of work went on at University). We got (and quickly discarded) aNintendo Wii and had far too many nights embarrassing our kids playingSingStar. Maybe I was a gamer after all? But the gaming world, the seriousdigital gaming world, seemed different somehow. Titles like CounterStrike, League of Legends, Defence of the Ancients just weren’t part ofmy gaming repertoire. And their surrounding communities were certainlynot something in which I was embedded: a community which has itsown language, its own rules, norms and cultures. Somehow this seemedimpenetrable to me and that sense of impenetrability hasn’t necessarilydiminished in the course of researching this book.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

301 WAR g

Penerbit

Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

121 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783030749101

Klasifikasi

301

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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