Free-to-Play
Mobile Video Games, Bias, and Norms
$48.21
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2021
Summary
An examination of free-to-play and mobile games that traces what is valued and what is marginalized in discussions of games.
Free-to-play and mobile video games are an important and growing part of the video game industry, and yet they are often disparaged by journalists, designers, and players and pronounced inferior to games with more traditional payment models. In this book, Christopher Paul shows that underlying the criticism is a bias against these games that stems more from who …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262539411 |
| Author: | Christopher A. Paul |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 346g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Christopher A. Paul
Christopher A. Paul is Associate Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication at Seattle University. He is the author of Wordplay and the Discourse of Video Games and The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games.
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