Persuasive Games The Expressive Power of Videogames

Name: Persuasive Games The Expressive Power of Videogames
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ISBN: 9780262026147

ISBN-10: 0262026147

ISBN-13: 9780262026147

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ian Bogost, Will Wright

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Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric's unique function in software in general and videogames in particular. The field of media studies already analyzes visual rhetoric, the art of using imagery and visual representation persuasively. Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/22/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and the coauthor of Newsgames: Journalism at Play (MIT Press, 2010).



Preface



Procedural Rhetoric


Politics



Political Processes



Ideological Frames



Digital Democracy


Advertising



Advertising Logic



Licensing and Product Placement



Advergames


Learning



Procedural Literacy



Values and Aspirations



Exercise



Purposes Of Persuasion


Notes


Bibliography


Index