While the assessment of digital games in Germany is framed by a high-culture critique, which regards them as an illegitimate activity, they are enjoyed by a wider demographic as a legitimate pastime in Australia. The book analyses the social history of digital gaming in both countries and relates it to their socio-cultural traditions. Concerning social history, Australia almost depicts an inverse mirror image of Germany. Its foundational dynamics, closely associated with different egalitarianisms, led to a different form of distinction than in Germany a country whose national self-conception...