Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies/  critical approaches to researching video game play 
Wright,Talmadge J. [ed.] 
 - Lanham:  Lexington Books,  2010. 
 - 286 
<br/><br/>Part 1 <br/>I. Introduction <br/>Chapter 2 <br/>1. Introduction to Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies <br/>Part 3 <br/>II. Modern Play and Technology-Defining Digital Play <br/>Chapter 4 <br/>2. The Transformation of Cultural Play <br/>Chapter 5 <br/>3. "Is He 'Avin a Laugh?": The Importance of Fun to Virtual Play Studies <br/>Chapter 6 <br/>4. Capitalism, Contradiction and the Carnivalesque: Alienated Labor vs. Ludic Play <br/>Chapter 7 <br/>5. Sneaking Mission: Late Imperial America and Metal Gear Solid <br/>8 6. I Blog, Therefore I Am: Virtual Embodiment and the Self <br/>9 III. Marketing Culture and the Video Game Business <br/>Chapter 10 <br/>7. Marketing Computer Games: Reinforcing or Changing Stereotypes? <br/>Chapter 11 <br/>8. Censoring Violence in Virtual Dystopia: Issues in the Rating of Videogames in Japan and of Japanese Videogames outside Japan Chapter 12 <br/>9. Coding Culture: Video game Localization and the Practice of Mediating Cultural Difference <br/>Part 13 <br/>IV.Researching Video Game Play <br/>Chapter 14 <br/>10. Beyond Sheeping the Moon - Methodological Considerations for Critical Studies of Digital Play <br/>Chapter 15 <br/>11. The Chorus of the Dead: Roles, Identity Formation, and Ritual Processes inside a FPS multiplayer online game <br/>Chapter 16 <br/>12. The Quantitative/Qualitative Antimony in Virtual World Studies Part 17<br/>V.Summary and Conclusions <br/>Chapter 18 <br/>13. Virtual Today, Reality Tomorrow: Taking Our Sociological Understanding of Virtual Game play to the Next Level 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0739147005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>794.8  / WRI/U