TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schleiner,Anne-Marie
TI  - Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games 
T2  - Games and Play
SN  - 9789048543946
AV  - GV1469.17.S63 S35 2020
U1  - 794.8091724 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Computer games
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Games
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Mobile games
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Film, Media, and Communication
KW  - Game Studies
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - Sociology and Social History
KW  - ART / Video Game Art
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Games for Change, Latin American Art, Mobile Players, Game Piracy, Global South
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction: Transnational Play --; Section One. Reorienting Player Geographies --; Section Two. Ludic Perspectives from South of the Border --; Section Three. From Global to Local Game Development --; Conclusion: Play Privilege --; Bibliography --; About the Author --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Transnational Play makes a case for approaching gameplay as a global industry and set of practices that also includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Such participation includes gameplay in cafes, games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, piracy and cheats, localization, urban playful art in Latin America, and the development of culturally unique mobile games. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on global play, 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, post-colonialism, geopolitics, and game studies. This book looks at who develops, localizes, and consumes games, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048543946?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048543946
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ER  -