pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: FUN INC.
WHY GAMES ARE THE 21ST CENTURY'S MOST SERIOUS BUSINESS
By: Tom Chatfield
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £8.99


We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source it.

ISBN 10: 0753523027
ISBN 13: 9780753523025
Publisher: EBURY PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 1 January, 2010
Pages: 272
Description: People make many assumptions about video games that only teenage boys play them, they increase anti-social behavior, and they tend to be violent. This title dispels these misconceptions. It reveals that 40 per cent of the video game players are women, and that most of the console games involve no real-world violence.
Synopsis: 'Tom Chatfield's Fun Inc. is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research ... The numbers surrounding the sector are certainly thudding. By the end of 2008, annual sales of video games - not including consoles or devices - was $40 billion, comfortably outstripping the movie business. In the same year, Nintendo's employees were more profitable per head than Google's. The sheer pervasiveness of game experience - 99 per cent of teenage boys and 94 per cent of teenage girls having played a video game - means that instant naffness falls upon those who express a musty disdain for the medium. In fact, as Fun Inc. elegantly explains, computer game-playing has a very strong claim to be one of the most vital test-beds for intellectual enquiry.'Independent
Publication: UK
Imprint: Virgin Digital
Returns: Non-returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Shoe Dog (Paperback)
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Our Price : £8.02
more details
Global Sport Marketing (Paperback)
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Our Price : £55.79
more details
You Win in the Locker Room First (Hardback)
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Our Price : £13.87
more details
Hotels and Resorts (Paperback)
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Our Price : £61.19
more details
Recent Developments in the Economics of Sport (Hardback)
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Our Price : £151.80
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 ECONOMICS, FINANCE, BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
 industry & industrial studies
 service industries
 sport & leisure industries


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
World’s Worst Superheroes GET READY FOR SOME SUPERSIZED FUN!
add to basket





New
No Cheese, Please! A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
add to basket

New
My Brother Is a Superhero Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
add to basket


Picture Book
Animal Actions: Snap Like a Crab
By:
The first title in a new preschool series from Guilherme Karsten.
add to basket