Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just kids' stuff: the majority of players are now adults, and the market is constantly broadening. The visual style ...(展开全部)

According to Roger Caillois, play is "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money." In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this classic study, Caillois defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from...(展开全部)

According to Roger Caillois, play is "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money." In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this classic study, Caillois defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from...(展开全部)

Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just kids' stuff: the majority of players are now adults, and the market is constantly broadening. The visual style ...(展开全部)

The authors provide an analysis of computer games as the most popular contemporary form of new media production and consumption, and examine their impact on established frameworks and concepts within cultural and media studies.

肯·宾默尔是一个从数学转行的经济学家，他把一生贡献给了博弈论及其在经济学、进化生物学、心理学和道德哲学中的应用。他因为参与设计为英国纳税人赚了350亿美元的电信拍卖而闻名于世，但其主要研究贡献在于议价理论及其实验检验。他是英国科学院和美国艺术与科学研究院的院士。他著有12本著作和大约90篇研究论文。他是伦敦大学学院的经济学名誉教授。

肯·宾默尔是一个从数学转行的经济学家，他把一生贡献给了博弈论及其在经济学、进化生物学、心理学和道德哲学中的应用。他因为参与设计为英国纳税人赚了350亿美元的电信拍卖而闻名于世，但其主要研究贡献在于议价理论及其实验检验。他是英国科学院和美国艺术与科学研究院的院士。他著有12本著作和大约90篇研究论文。他是伦敦大学学院的经济学名誉教授。

" The inertia of language, " declares Geoffrey Hill, is also " the coercive force of language." Good poets write against coercion, and "Against Coercion" is essentially about the power of words. Looking at our most highly organized form of words, poems, and how they work, it observes how that work speaks-- always indirectly-- to historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions, inc...(展开全部)