Transnational Play

Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games

Anne-Marie Schleiner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

182 Seiten

2020
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-890-4 (ISBN)

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Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Players experience play in game cafes, through casual games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, through piracy and cheats, via cultural localization, on their mobile phones, and through urban playful art in Latin America. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on the global developers who make games, as well as the players who consume games, while still acknowledging geographically distributed socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other inequities. Over the course of the inquiry, which includes a chapter dedicated to the cartography of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go, the author develops a theoretical line of argument critically informed by gender studies and intersectionality, postcolonialism, geopolitics, and game studies, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain.

Anne-Marie Schleiner is engaged in gaming and media culture in a variety of roles as a critic, theorist, activist, artist, and designer. She has exhibited in international galleries, museums and festivals. Documentation of her performative culture work is available on the Video Data Bank. She holds a doctorate in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She has taught at universities in the United States, Mexico, and Singapore, and is a Lecturer in Design at the University of California, Davis.

Introduction: Transnational Play
Section One: Reorienting Player Geographies
Chapter 1: Tilting the Axis of Global Play: From East/West to South/North
Chapter 2: Venues for Ludoliteracy: Arcades, Game Cafes, and Street Pirates
Chapter 3: The Free-to-play Time of Women in Brazil: Localized Mobile and Casual Games
Section Two: Ludic Perspectives from South of the Border
Chapter 4: Ludic Recycling in Latin American Art: From Remixing the City to Sampling Nature
Chapter 5: The Geopolitics of Pokémon Go: Navigating Bordering Cities with a Mobile Augmented Reality Game
Section Three: From Global to Local Game Development
Chapter 6: The Absence of the Oppressor: Games for Change and Californian Happiness Engineers
Chapter 7: Game Studios in Southeast Asia: Outsourced to Culturally Customized Games
Conclusion: Play Privilege
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Games and Play
Zusatzinfo	13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	94-6372-890-2 / 9463728902
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-890-4 / 9789463728904
Zustand	Neuware