LIBROS DEL AUTOR: larissa hjorth

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  • Exploring Minecraft
    Hugh Davies / Ingrid Richardson / Larissa Hjorth
    This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice. The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, ...
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    134,46 €

  • Understanding Social Media
    Larissa Hjorth / Sam Hinton
    Exploring questions of both exploitation and empowerment, Understanding Social Media provides a critical conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media. ...
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    100,40 €

  • Haunting Hands
    Kathleen M Cumiskey / Larissa Hjorth
    Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media's ubiquitous presence in our lives, in particular the representing, sharing, and remembering of loss. From Facebook tribute pages during public disasters to the lingering digital traces on a smartphone of the deceased, the digital is both extending earlier memorial practices and creating new ways in which dea...
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    59,13 €

  • Online@AsiaPacific
    Larissa Hjorth / Michael Arnold
    The six case studies which inform this book: Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne, offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, linguistic and religious differences, enabling the authors to provide new insights into specific issues pertaining to mobile media in each city. These include social, mobile and locative media as a form of crisis management in post 3/1...
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    88,25 €

  • Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific
    Larissa Hjorth
    This book locates the mobile phone not just as a symbol of lifestyle, but as a domestic technology that is very much subject to local nuances, treating the mobile phone as much as a cultural artefact as a functional technology. ...
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    85,08 €

  • Games and Gaming
    Larissa Hjorth
    The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox, to platforms such as iPhones and online gaming worlds, the realm of games and their scope have become all-pervasive.The study of games is no longer a niche in...
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    57,86 €