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** On behalf of Stella Fundingsland, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ** Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post the below message to MECCSA. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 http://www.upress.umn.edu _________________________________ _ _______ _ _ ____________________________ Understanding the military logics that created and continue to inform computer games GAMEPLAY MODE: War, Simulation, and Technoculture By Patrick Crogan University of Minnesota Press | 256 pages | 2011 ISBN 978-0-8166-5335-5 | paperback | $25.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-5334-8 | cloth | $75.00 Electronic Mediations Series, volume 36 To understand the place of computer games in contemporary culture, Patrick Crogan argues, we must first understand the military logics that created and continue to inform them. Drawing on critical theoretical perspectives on computer-based technoculture, Crogan reveals how today’s computer games—and the wider culture they increasingly influence—are informed by the technoscientific program they inherited from the military-industrial complex. PRAISE FOR GAMEPLAY MODE: "Gameplay Mode is a groundbreaking work that will make readers regard digital games in new and important ways. Patrick Crogan makes impressive and skillful use of a range of concepts drawn from critical theory to call our attention to the complex and highly significant relationships between digital games and technologies of war. He explores with intelligence and subtlety the effects and influences that techno-militarism have had, and are having, on culture in general and digital games specifically." —Tanya Krzywinska, Brunel University ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Patrick Crogan teaches film and media studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/gameplay-mode To learn more about the Electronic Mediations Series, follow this link: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/electronic-mediations Please email me if you have any questions. -- Heather Skinner, Publicist University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> v * 612-627-1932 f * 612-627-1980 ________________ Stella Fundingsland Marketing Assistant University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Ave. S., Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 www.upress.umn.edu<http://www.upress.umn.edu/> 612.627.1933 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Einar Thorsen, PhD Lecturer in Journalism and Communication The Media School, Bournemouth University Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask]<applewebdata:[log in to unmask]> Twitter: http://twitter.com/einarthorsen Blog: http://multimediajournalism.info/ Phone: +44 (0)1202 968838 Convenor Journalism Research Group: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/imcr/cjcr/ Programme Coordinator MA Journalism and New Media: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/courses/MAJNMF Communication Officer of MeCCSA: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------