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The Multi-Player Game: Game Studies and Interdisciplinarity

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2012

Abstract

This chapter offers an introduction into game studies from the viewpoint of interdisciplinarity. It presents a history of the discipline and comments on its relationships with literary theory, sociology, media studies, anthropology and other fields.

It gives examples of applications of respective approaches to the study of games and maps current trends in games studies.