Brookwell Ilya (University Of California Riverside Usa)
Brookwell Ilya (University Of California Riverside Usa) - Gamer Citizens Live - Video Politics In A Digital Age - Paperback
Brookwell Ilya (University Of California Riverside Usa) - Gamer Citizens Live - Video Politics In A Digital Age - Paperback
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Description: This book examines the politics of being a gamer in the digital age with an in - depth study of the communities of gamers who populate live - video streaming sites. This text offers an innovative theoretical and methodological study of gamers in their community. It explores gamers as citizens and asks how gamers are political in view of their activities on stream. Ilya Brookwell examines how gamers live out their daily lives on live - video streams and how they use their associated new platforms and tools including live - video streams such as Twitch. tv and online web fora to engage with live - video politics . It explores the relationship between gamers gaming and streaming highlighting how gamers develop a notion of self that is fundamentally located in community. Gamers consequently create inhabit as well as inherit a political world. With streaming communities offering unique insights into what it means to live in a digital age the book explores how gamers find hopeful openings as well as limits through streaming. The book highlights how gamers can take an active role in politics and democracy in a digital age. Interesting reading for undergraduate students postgraduate researchers and academics of media cultural and communication studies video game studies and digital media studies.
Title: Gamer Citizens Live - Video Politics In A Digital Age
Author(s): Brookwell Ilya (University Of California Riverside Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032371337
Pages: 138 Pages, 6 Line Drawings, Black And White; 18 Halftones, Black And White; 24 Illustrations, Black
Publication Date: 6/25/2024
Category: Media Studies
Description: This book examines the politics of being a gamer in the digital age with an in - depth study of the communities of gamers who populate live - video streaming sites. This text offers an innovative theoretical and methodological study of gamers in their community. It explores gamers as citizens and asks how gamers are political in view of their activities on stream. Ilya Brookwell examines how gamers live out their daily lives on live - video streams and how they use their associated new platforms and tools including live - video streams such as Twitch. tv and online web fora to engage with live - video politics . It explores the relationship between gamers gaming and streaming highlighting how gamers develop a notion of self that is fundamentally located in community. Gamers consequently create inhabit as well as inherit a political world. With streaming communities offering unique insights into what it means to live in a digital age the book explores how gamers find hopeful openings as well as limits through streaming. The book highlights how gamers can take an active role in politics and democracy in a digital age. Interesting reading for undergraduate students postgraduate researchers and academics of media cultural and communication studies video game studies and digital media studies.
Title: Gamer Citizens Live - Video Politics In A Digital Age
Author(s): Brookwell Ilya (University Of California Riverside Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032371337
Pages: 138 Pages, 6 Line Drawings, Black And White; 18 Halftones, Black And White; 24 Illustrations, Black
Publication Date: 6/25/2024
Category: Media Studies
