Video Games as Culture

<p>Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture but in doing so utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life.</p><p>Video games are becoming an increasingly central part of our cultural lives impacting on various aspects of everyday life such as our consumption communities and identity formation. Drawing on new and original empirical data – including interviews with gamers as well as key representatives from the video game industry media education and cultural sector – <i>Video Games as Culture</i> not only considers contemporary video game culture but also explores how video games provide important insights into the modern nature of digital and participatory culture patterns of consumption and identity formation late modernity and contemporary political rationalities.</p><p>This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such Video Games Sociology and Media and Cultural Studies. It will also be useful for those interested in the wider role of culture technology and consumption in the transformation of society identities and communities.</p>