The Counterfeit Coin : Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment

Name: The Counterfeit Coin
Brand: Rutgers University Press
SKU: 9781978825512
Price: 21600 KES
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ISBN: 9781978825512

by Christopher Goetz

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 197882551X

ISBN-13 9781978825512

Publisher Rutgers University Press

Imprint Rutgers University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 12th, 2023

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 458 grams

Dimensions 16.20 x 24.40 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Society and culture: general Popular culture Media studies Society & culture: general Popular culture Media studies Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects Ethical & social aspects of IT Human-computer interaction Human–computer interaction

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Argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. The book introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.

The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric—an internal mental image expressing the fulfillment of some wish—fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out. This book seeks to undo the monolith of commercial gaming by locating multiplicity and difference within fantasy itself. It introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.

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