How mobile games are part of our day-to-day lives and the ways we interact across digital, material, and social landscapes How mobile games are part of our day-to-day lives and the ways we interact across digital, material, and social landscapes.We often play games on our mobile devices when we have some time to kill-waiting in line, pausing between tasks, stuck on a bus. We play in solitude or in company, alone in a bedroom or with others in the family room. In Ambient Play, Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson examine how mobile gameplay fits into our day-to-day lives. They show that as mobile games spread across different genres, platforms, practices, and contexts, they become an important way of experiencing and navigating a digitally saturated world. Mobile games become conduits for what the authors call ambient play, pervading much of our social and communicative terrain. We become digital wayfarers, moving constantly among digital, social, and social worlds.Hjorth and Richardson explore how households are transformed by media-how idiosyncratic media use can alter the spatial composition and emotional cadence of the home. They show how mobile games connect domestic forms of play with more public forms of playfulness in urban spaces, how collaborative play (both networked and face-to-face) is incorporated into private and public play, and how touchscreens and haptic play emphasize the perception of the moving body. Hjorth and Richardson invite us to think of mobile gaming as more than a "casual" distraction but as a complex cultural practice embedded into our contemporary ways of being, knowing, and communicating.

Ambient Play (Playful Thinking)

Computers & Technology

Hjorth, Larissa

Richardson, Ingrid

Games & Strategy Guides

The MIT Press

Bodies and Mobile Media

Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to in urban spaces, or how they alter our pedestrian movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication technologies have become deeply integral to our perception and bodily experience of the world. &nbsp; In this original book, Ingrid Richardson and Rowan Wilken explore mobile media as a lens through which to understand how embodiment both shapes, and is shaped by, media experience.&nbsp;Bodies and Mobile Media&nbsp;offers a unique approach by focusing on specific sensory affordances and body parts - including the eyes, ears, face, hands and feet - to consider the uneven ratios of sensory perception at work in our engagement with mobile devices. Each chapter provides rich and accessible narratives of mobile media practices interwoven with current scholarship in media studies and phenomenology, with a concluding chapter that considers mobile media use holistically as a synaesthetic experience. The book thus serves as an important work of knowledge translation, by interpreting theoretical insights about the body-technology relation. This knowledge translation is crucial, the authors argue, if we are to critically understand how our perception and experience of the world is mediated by technology. &nbsp; This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies.

Wilken, Rowan

Polity

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Digital games are one of the most significant media interfaces of contemporary life.&nbsp;Games today interweave with the social, economic, material, and political complexities of living in a digital age. But who makes games, who plays them, and what, how and where do we play?This book explores the ways in which games and global game cultures can be understood. It investigates the sites, genres, platforms, interfaces and&nbsp;contexts for games and gameplay, offering a critical overview of the breadth of contemporary game studies.It is an essential companion for students looking to understand games and games&nbsp;cultures&nbsp;in our increasingly playful and 'gamified' digital society.

Understanding Games and Game Cultures

Davies, Hugh

Sage Publications Ltd.

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