Computer Games and New Media Cultures A Handbook of Digital Games Studies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fromme, Johannes (Editor), Unger, Alexander (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Education.; Education > Data processing.; Social sciences.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Education, general.; Social Sciences, general.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Computers and Education.

Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a res...