LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media, Chris Ingraham, Nicholas Taylor

Название: LEGOfied
ISBN: 1501354043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501354045
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media offers a multi-faceted exploration of LEGO fandom, addressing a blindspot in current accounts of LEGO and an emerging area of interest to media scholars: namely, the role of hobbyist enthusiasts and content producers in LEGO’s emergence as a ubiquitous transmedia franchise. This book examines a range of LEGO hobbyism and their attendant forms of mediated self-expression and identity (their “technicities”): artists, aspiring Master Builders, collectors, and entrepreneurs who refashion LEGO bricks into new commodities (sets, tchotchkes, and minifigures). The practices and perspectives that constitute this diverse scene lie at the intersection of multiple transformations in contemporary culture, including the shifting relationships between culture industries and the audiences that form their most ardent consumer base, but also the emerging forms of entrepreneurialism, professionalization, and globalization that characterize the burgeoning DIY movement. The major aim of this edited volume, and what makes it a compelling project for media scholars, is its rigorous, mutli-dimensional articulation of how LEGO functions not just as toy, as cultural icon, or as transmedia franchise, but as a media platform. LEGOfied is centered around their shared experiences, qualitative observations, and semi-structured interviews at a number of LEGO hobbyist conventions. Working outwards from these conventions, each chapter of the book engages additional modes of inquiry -- media archaeology, aesthetics, posthumanist philosophy, feminist media studies, and science and technology studies -- to explore the origins, permutations and implications of different aspects of the contemporary LEGO fandom scene.

Автор: Geoffrey Engelstein, Isaac Shalev
Название: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms
ISBN: 1138365521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138365520
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Building Blocks is an encyclopedia of hundreds of different mechanisms, organized by category. Each mechanism includes a description of how it works, a discussion of its pros and cons, how it can be used, and examples of specific games that use it. Excellent for new designs, inspiration, or when trying to solve a problem in the midst of a design.

Автор: Geoffrey Engelstein, Isaac Shalev
Название: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms
ISBN: 1138365491 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138365490
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms compiles hundreds of different mechanisms, organized by category. Each has a description of how it works, discussion of its pros and cons, how it can be implemented, and examples of specific games that use it. Building Blocks can be read cover to cover, used as a reference when looking for inspiration for a new design, help solving a specific problem, or assist in getting unstuck in the midst of a project. This book, the first to collect mechanisms like this in the tabletop game design field, aims to be a practical guide that will be a great starting point for beginning designers, a handy guidebook for the experienced, and an ideal classroom textbook. ? Key Features The first compendium of its kind in the tabletop game field. Covers the nuts and bolts of design to resolve specific challenges. Serves as a practical guide, a great starting point for beginning designers, and a reference for seasoned professionals. Contains discussion of a series of standalone mechanisms, in a standard format and style, with cross-links to related mechanics and specific examples. Includes hundreds of mechanism entries with accompanying diagrams and sample games to study. Ideal for professional or classroom use.

Автор: Cortada James W.
Название: Building Blocks of Society: History, Information Ecosystems and Infrastructures
ISBN: 1538148544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538148549
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This book proposes a way to look at the history of information that is relevant to observers in other disciplines and familiar to historians of business, economics, sociology and technology. The author presents that with theoretical and historiographical discussions of what information ecosystems and infrastructures are and their value.