G. Kirkpatrick

The Formation of Gaming Culture: UK Gaming Magazines, 1981-1995 G. Kirkpatrick

Marc Notes: Graeme Kilpatrick analyses gaming magazines published in Britain from 1981-1995 to provide a detailed history of the bedroom coding culture that produced some of the most important video games ever played. He also shows how the formation of this culture was entwined with changes to the economics and technologies of game production in that period. Table of Contents: Introduction1. Approaches To Gaming's Field2. Studying The Magazines3. Getting A Feel For The Games 4. Game Addicted Freaks 5. Wimps, YOBS And Game BustersConclusion: Gaming's Field And Game StudiesBiographical Note: Graeme Kirkpatrick is Professor in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration at the University of Skovde, Sweden. His Aesthetic Theory and the Video Game (2011) was recently listed by Edge magazine as one that should be in every gamer's library, while his Computer Games and the Social Imaginary (2013) was described in New Media & Society as 'one of the finest books to date on the subject of digital games'. His first book, Critical Technology (2004), won the 2005 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize from the British Sociological Association.

Contributor Bio:  Kirkpatrick, Graeme Pascal Chabot has a doctorate in philosophy from the Free University of Brussels. He is a researcher at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research. Graeme Kirkpatrick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Critical Technology (2004) which won the 2005 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize from the British Sociological Association; Technology and Social Power (2008) and the co-editor of Historical Materialism and Social Evolution (2002).