Fun Inc.

Why games are the 21st Century's most serious business

Tom Chatfield (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2011
Virgin Books (Verlag)
978-0-7535-1945-5 (ISBN)

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'Tom Chatfield's Fun Inc. is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research ... The numbers surrounding the sector are certainly thudding. By the end of 2008, annual sales of video games - not including consoles or devices - was $40 billion, comfortably outstripping the movie business. In the same year, Nintendo's employees were more profitable per head than Google's. The sheer pervasiveness of game experience - 99 per cent of teenage boys and 94 per cent of teenage girls having played a video game - means that instant naffness falls upon those who express a musty disdain for the medium. In fact, as Fun Inc. elegantly explains, computer game-playing has a very strong claim to be one of the most vital test-beds for intellectual enquiry.'
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Tom Chatfield completed his doctorate at St John's College, Oxford, before moving to London to work as a full-time writer and editor. He is currently the arts and books editor at Prospect magazine.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.1.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 198 mm
Gewicht	188 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-7535-1945-3 / 0753519453
ISBN-13	978-0-7535-1945-5 / 9780753519455
Zustand	Neuware