[Air-l] Shameless plug: New book on Cheating (in videogames, that is)

[Mia Consalvo]

Hi all,

For a little light summer reading :), here's a shameless plug for my new
book "Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames" which is now available from
MIT Press (or Amazon, or etc). Here's the brief blurb and places to find it:

"The widely varying experiences of players of digital games challenge the
notions that there is only one correct way to play a game. Some players
routinely use cheat codes, consult strategy guides, or buy and sell in-game
accounts, while others consider any or all of these practices off limits.
Meanwhile, the game industry works to constrain certain readings or
activities and promote certain ways of playing. In Cheating, Mia Consalvo
investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they
can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player
behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups), examines the varying
ways that players and industry define cheating, describes how the game
industry itself has helped systematize cheating, and studies online cheating
in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI. She develops the
concept of "gaming capital" as a key way to understand individuals'
interaction with games, information about games, the game industry, and
other players."

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11153

http://www.amazon.com/Cheating-Advantage-Videogames-Mia-Consalvo/dp/02620336
58/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7568115-4449563?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182189765&sr=8-1


Enjoy!

Mia
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