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"The recent explosion in the popularity of competitive gaming lacks a sufficient amount of documented history for people to truly appreciate just how far professional video gaming has come. Finally, T.L. Taylor provides an amazing perspective on eSports that will educate fans about a period of competitive play that's nearly been forgotten. Forget what history you may know, this book gives you the history you should know." --Marcus "djWHEAT" Graham, Host and Executive Producer, OneMoreGame.tv
"T.L. Taylor has been among the best analysts of the media we have had over the past decade. Now she turns her exacting but always entertaining scrutiny to e-sports, with all the power we have come to expect of a participant observer of the highest order."--Toby Miller, author of Makeover Nation
"In Raising the Stakes, T. L. Taylor does exactly what the title promises by giving us the first serious academic take on the world of competitive e-sports. She touches on every aspect of the new cyberathleticism, always carefully balancing enthusiasm and skepticism." --Henry Lowood, Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections, Stanford University
"This book is about much more than the e-sports scene. T.L. Taylor uses e-sports as a lens for looking at the confluence of social, cultural and technological practices that are reshaping human interaction as digital culture at both the local everyday level and at the broader level of global techno-politics."--Bart Simon, Director of the Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games, Concordia University, Montreal
"… Taylor has given us a great account of an exciting part of gaming culture." -- Faltin Karlsen, Times Higher Education
"While Raising the Stakes fits neatly within the gaming studies or media studies genres, it is also an exciting and novel contribution to the growing body of work in what might be termed global technology studies." -- Jenna Burrell, Contemporary Sociology
About the Author
T. L. Taylor is Associate Professor in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She is the author of
Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture (MIT Press).
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- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press (March 23, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0262017377
- ISBN-13: 978-0262017374
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