Values at Play in Digital Games

Name: Values at Play in Digital Games
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ISBN: 9780262027663

ISBN-10: 0262027666

ISBN-13: 9780262027663

Edition: 2014

Authors: Mary Flanagan, Helen Nissenbaum

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All games express and embody human values, providing a compelling arena in which weplay out beliefs and ideas. "Big ideas" such as justice, equity, honesty, and cooperation-- as well as other kinds of ideas, including violence, exploitation, and greed -- may emerge ingames whether designers intend them or not. In this book, Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum presentValues at Play, a theoretical and practical framework for identifying socially recognized moral andpolitical values in digital games. Values at Play can also serve as a guide to designers who seek toimplement values in the conception and design of their games. After developing atheoretical foundation for their proposal, Flanagan…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/18/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.31" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English