A Ludicrous Discipline: Ethnography and Game Studies

Boellstorff, Tom

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A Ludicrous Discipline: Ethnography and Game Studies

Date

2006

Authors

Boellstorff, Tom

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

Abstract

The information age has, under our noses, become the gaming age. It appears likely that gaming and its associated notion of play may become a master metaphor for a range of human social relations, with the potential for new freedoms and new creativity as