Playing Video Games

<p>From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games to sports games to gambling playing video games has become a social phenomena and the increasing number of players that cross gender culture and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory. <i>Playing Video Games: Motives Responses and Consequences</i> integrates communication psychology and technology to examine the psychological and mediated aspects of playing video games. It is the first volume to delve deeply into these aspects of computer game play. It fits squarely into the media psychology arm of entertainment studies the next big wave in media studies. The book targets one of the most popular and pervasive media in modern times and it will serve to define the area of study and provide a theoretical spine for future research.<br><br>This unique and timely volume will appeal to scholars researchers and graduate students in media studies and mass communication psychology and marketing.</p>