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Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games
In this timely new book, Christopher Paul analyzes how the words we use to talk about video games and the structures that are produced within games shape a particular way of gaming by focusing on how games create meaning, lead to identification and division, persuade, and circulate ideas. Paul examines the broader social discourse about gaming, including: the way players are socialized into games; the impact of the lingering association of video games as kid's toys; the dynamics within specific games (including Grand Theft Auto and EA Sports Games); and the ways in which players participate in shaping the discourse of games, demonstrated through examples like the reward system of World of Warcraft and the development of theorycraft. Overall, this book illustrates how video games are shaped by words, design and play; all of which are negotiated, ongoing practices among the designers, players, and society that construct the discourse of video games.
Introduction: The New Rhetoric of Video Games I. The Context 1. Socializing Gamers 2. Video Games as ‘Kid’s’ Toys 3. Talking Game Design 4. Consoles Read Rhetorically II. The Texts 5. GTA , Humor, and Protagonists 6. EA Sports and Planned Obsolescence 7. Rearticulating Rewards in WoW 8. Theorycraft and Optimization 9. Balance and Meritocracies III. Using Wordplay 10. Words, Design, and Play
Christopher A. Paul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Seattle University. His work applies rhetorical analysis to video games and has been published in Games and Culture , Game Studies , the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research , First Monday , and the International Journal of Role-Playing .
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Real games : what's legitimate and what's not in contemporary videogames
\"Real Games is an exploration of how the discourses surrounding videogames shapes what games get made and played as well as who is invited to play them. By making appeals to 'real games,' players and developers center certain kinds of experiences and marginalize others. The authors argue that this process emerges dynamically out of discussions about videogames and has changed over time to center on a handful of key elements, namely a game's developer, it's payment model, and elements of the game itself including its length and perceived difficulty (among others). Dozens of games are referenced in this book, many of which are not widely studied. That gives the manuscript an ability to connect with more potential readers and the ability to speak more broadly about the state of videogames than efforts that are focused on an individual genre or game\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Black is beautiful : a philosophy of black aesthetics
Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject.
* The first extended philosophical treatment of an important subject that has been almost entirely neglected by philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art
* Takes an important step in assembling black aesthetics as an object of philosophical study
* Unites two areas of scholarship for the first time – philosophical aesthetics and black cultural theory, dissolving the dilemma of either studying philosophy, or studying black expressive culture
* Brings a wide range of fields into conversation with one another– from visual culture studies and art history to analytic philosophy to musicology – producing mutually illuminating approaches that challenge some of the basic suppositions of each
* Well-balanced, up-to-date, and beautifully written as well as inventive and insightful
* Winner of The American Society of Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize 2017
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A Guide to Teaching in the Active Learning Classroom
While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room's central focal point and disrupt the conventional seating plan to which faculty and students have become accustomed.The importance of learning how to use these classrooms well and to capitalize on their special features is paramount. The potential they represent can be realized only when they facilitate improved learning outcomes and engage students in the learning process in a manner different from traditional classrooms and lecture halls.This book provides an introduction to ALCs, briefly covering their history and then synthesizing the research on these spaces to provide faculty with empirically based, practical guidance on how to use these unfamiliar spaces effectively. Among the questions this book addresses are:
How can instructors mitigate the apparent lack of a central focal point in the space?
What types of learning activities work well in the ALCs and take advantage of the affordances of the room?
How can teachers address familiar classroom-management challenges in these unfamiliar spaces?
If assessment and rapid feedback are critical in active learning, how do they work in a room filled with circular tables and no central focus point?
How do instructors balance group learning with the needs of the larger class?
How can students be held accountable when many will necessarily have their backs facing the instructor?
How can instructors evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching in these spaces?This book is intended for faculty preparing to teach in or already working in this new classroom environment; for administrators planning to create ALCs or experimenting with provisionally designed rooms; and for faculty developers helping teachers transition to using these new spaces.
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Decisions Over Decimals
Become a confident leader and use data, experience, and intuition to drive your decisions Agile decision making is imperative as you lead in a data-driven world. Amid streams of data and countless meetings, we make hasty decisions, slow decisions, and often no decisions. Uniquely bridging theory and practice, Decisions Over Decimals breaks this pattern by uniting data intelligence with human judgment to get to action — a sharp approach the authors refer to as Quantitative Intuition (QI). QI raises the power of thinking beyond big data without neglecting it and chasing the perfect decision while appreciating that such a thing can never really exist. Successful decision-makers are fierce interrogators. They square critical thinking with open-mindedness by blending information, intuition, and experience. Balancing these elements is at the heart of Decisions Over Decimals.
This book is not only designed to be read - but frequently referenced - as you face innumerable decision moments. It is the hands-on manual for confident, accurate decision-making you've been looking for; the rare resource that provides a set of pragmatic leadership tools to accelerate:
* Effectively framing the problem for stakeholders
* Synthesizing intelligence from incomplete information
* Delivering decisions that stick
Strike the right balance between information and intuition and lead the smarter way with the real-world guidance found in Decisions Over Decimals.
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Organizational Behaviour
Clear, concise, and written by experts currently lecturing in the field, Organizational Behaviour focuses exclusively on what you need to know for success in your business course and today’s global economy.
The text brings together a vast range of ideas, models, and concepts on organizational behaviour from an array of fields, such as psychology, sociology, history, economics, and politics. This information is presented in bite-sized, digestible pieces to create an accessible and engaging style that makes it the perfect text for introductory courses covering organizations.
Key features include:
a clear and thought-provoking introduction to organizational behaviour
relevant, cutting-edge case studies with global focus
hot topics such as eOrganizations, ethics, and diversity, keeping you up-to-date with current business thinking
further reading, summaries, activities, key theme boxes, and review questions to help reinforce your understanding
This textbook will be a valuable resource for students of business and management studies, organization studies, psychology, and sociology.
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