Overview
- Brings the local into focus, but also seeks to critically situate locality and locatedness in game history
- Fills an important gap in the history of games
- Anchored by leading scholars of game history
Part of the book series: Palgrave Games in Context (PAGCON)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality. Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter, yet most digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. Topics covered include: hyper-local games; temporal anomalies in platform arrival and obsolescence; national videogame workforces; player memories of the places of gameplay; comparative reception studies of a platform; the erasure of cultural markers; the localization of games; and perspectives on the future development of ‘local’ game history.
Chapters 1 and 12 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Melanie Swalwell is Professor of Digital Media Heritage at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She is the author of Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality (2021), and co-editor of Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives (2017) and The Pleasures of Computer Gaming (2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Game History and the Local
Editors: Melanie Swalwell
Series Title: Palgrave Games in Context
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66422-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66421-3Published: 25 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66424-4Published: 26 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66422-0Published: 24 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-5029
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5037
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 240
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Culture , Media and Communication, Cultural History