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Transnational Contexts of Development History, Sociality, and Society of Play

Video Games in East Asia

Palgrave Macmillan
  • A companion to Lee and Pulos' Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism of Play: Video Games in East Asia. Together, these volumes offer an important intervention to the field of Game Studies and East Asian Popular Culture
  • Offers in-depth insights to key contemporary questions in the Game Studies and East Asian Popular Culture fields
  • Brings together a global group of scholars from a variety of disciplines to collaborate on the state of the area, its past, and its future

Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: Histories and Industries of Gameplay

    • S. Austin Lee, Alexis Pulos
    Pages 1-9
  3. Mobile Social Games

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
    2. In-Game Purchases and Event Features of Mobile Social Games in Japan

      • Akiko Shibuya, Mizuha Teramoto, Akiyo Shoun
      Pages 95-122
    3. Bowling Online: Mobile Social Games for Korean Teen Girls

      • Hogeun Seo, Claire Shinhea Lee
      Pages 123-149
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 237-243

About this book

This book examines the historical background of game development, offline and online gamer interactions, and presents a method to study the health impacts of digital games in East Asia. Focusing on examinations of how video games shape external interactions with the world as well as internal spaces, Lee and Pulos' volume brings together a range of approaches and regions to understand the impact of video games in East Asia and beyond. Contributions range from assessments of Nintendo's lasting technological impact in Japan and globally to analyses of mobile social gaming among teenage girls in Korea, with qualitative and quantitative methodologies set in contact with one another to offer a full spectrum of perspectives on video gaming and its profound cultural impact.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, USA

    S. Austin Lee, Alexis Pulos

About the editors

S. Austin Lee is Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University, USA. He received his BA from Seoul National University, South Korea and MA/Ph.D. from Michigan State University, USA. His areas of expertise include communication technology and culture and communication. His scholarly work has been published in top academic journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology. He also received the top paper award from the National Communication Association.

Alexis Pulos is Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University, USA and teaches games and culture, board game design, and video game analysis. He received his Ph.D. from University of New Mexico where he studied rhetoric, new media, digital games, and film. His current work focuses on the ways player agency is structured through the design and social regulation of rule systems.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transnational Contexts of Development History, Sociality, and Society of Play

  • Book Subtitle: Video Games in East Asia

  • Editors: S. Austin Lee, Alexis Pulos

  • Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43820-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43819-1Published: 31 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82918-0Published: 17 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43820-7Published: 21 January 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5935

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 243

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Asian Culture, Media and Communication, Asian History, Asian Politics, Youth Culture

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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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