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

[Joon Lee]

Mia, Many congratulations!!
Joon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mia Consalvo" <consalvo at ohio.edu>
To: "Games Research Network" <GAMESNETWORK at uta.fi>; <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>; "'BigNova'" <bignova at lists.roaringshrimp.com>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:04 PM
Subject: [Air-l] Shameless plug: New book on Cheating (in videogames,that is)


> 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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