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Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World

Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew ErvinPublish date:2017-05-02Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465039708ISBN-10:465039707UPC:9780465039708Book Category:Games & Activities, Social Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Video & Mobile, Popular CultureSize:8.20 x 5.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCC9ZA443G
An acclaimed critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time

Video games have seemingly taken over our lives. Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours each week playing -- and there is a 40 percent chance this person is a woman.

In Bit by Bit, Andrew Ervin sets out to understand the explosive popularity of video games. He travels to government laboratories, junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists and game designers, both old and young. In charting the material and technological history of video games, from the 1950s to the present, he suggests that their appeal starts and ends with the sense of creativity they instill in gamers. As Ervin argues, games are art because they are beautiful, moving, and even political -- and because they turn players into artists themselves.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465039708ISBN-10:465039707UPC:9780465039708Book Category:Games & Activities, Social Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Video & Mobile, Popular CultureSize:8.20 x 5.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCC9ZA443G
Andrew Ervin is the author of Extraordinary Renditions and Burning Down George Orwell's House. He has written essays and reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and others. He teaches part time at Temple University and lives with his wife in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Publisher: Basic Books

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Andrew Ervin

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