Ash, James and Gallacher, Lesley Anne
(2011).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00427.x |
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Abstract
While videogames have been a popular form of entertainment practice for a number of decades it is only recently that they have been paid much attention by academics. Although there is a burgeoning body of scholarship that deals with videogames in new media and games studies, human geography is only just beginning to offer its own take on the medium and the practices associated with it. This essay outlines ways in which scholars (both within geography and beyond) have traced out the geographies in videogames (in terms of the representations and politics within videogames), the geographies of videogames (in terms of the production and consumption of videogames) and videogames as a cultural geographical practice (in terms of the technocultural practices through which videogames and videogamers are produced). We argue that approaching videogaming as a (techno)cultural practice can enrich the cultural geographies in and of videogames.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 The Authors, 2011 Geography Compass, 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1749-8198 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 25536 |
| Depositing User: | Lesley-Anne Gallacher |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2011 12:57 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2016 10:39 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/25536 |
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