The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice: Procedural Habits

ISBN-13: 9780367890902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 274 str.

Steve Holmes

Opis

This book offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames.

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Spis treści

Introduction

Part I: Theorizing Procedural Habits

1. Persuasive Technologies in the Rhetoric of Videogames

2. From Persuasive Technologies to Procedural Habits

Part II: Thinking Persuasive Technologies Differently

3. Affective Design and the Captivation of Memory in First-Person Shooter

Videogames

4. Gamification and Suggestion Technologies (Kairos) Beyond Critique

5. Achieving Eudaimonia in Free-to-Play Social Media Games

6. The Habits of Highly Unsuccessful Nonhuman Computational Actors

7. The Materiality of Play as Public Rhetoric Pedagogy

Conclusion

O autorze

Steve Holmes is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, USA