Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games (1) (Games and Play)

By: Anne-Marie Schleiner

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 182 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040772355
Related ISBNs:: 9789463728904, 9781003708667, 9781041189893, 9781040798294
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/01/25
Copyrighted By:: A.-M. Schleiner / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Computers and Internet, Technology, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.