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The Promise of Play: A New Approach to Productive Play
Games are woven into webs of cultural meaning, social connection, politics, and economic change. This article builds on previous work in cultural, new media, and game studies to introduce a new approach to productive play, the promise of play. This approach analyzes games as sites of cultural production in times of increased transnational mediation and speaks to the formation of identity across...
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Games are woven into webs of cultural meaning, social connection, politics, and economic change. This paper builds on previous work in cultural, new media and game studies to introduce a new approach to productive play, the promise of play. This approach analyzes games as sites of cultural production in times of increased transnational mediation and speaks to the formation of identity across pl...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Artifact
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1749-3463,1749-3471
DOI: 10.1080/17493460903203341