Volume 6, Number 1 (2006)

The Play's the Thing: Games, Gamers and Gaming Cultures

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Allegorical Reductions and Social Reconstructions: An Introduction to Games, Gamers, and Gaming Cultures
Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Davin Heckman

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Contributors
Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Editor) and Davin Heckman (Editor)

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Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Editor) and Davin Heckman (Editor)

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The Playing Card’s Progress: A Brief History of Cards and Card Games
Joyce Goggin

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The Everyday Life of Playing Cards, Ruralism, and the Case of Russian Peasantry
Anna N. Kushkova

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Cold War Games and Postwar Art
Claudia Mesch

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Constructing a New Game: J.K. Rowling’s Quidditch and Global Kid Culture
Terri Toles Patkin

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More Than Girlfriends, Geekettes, and Gladiatixes: Women, Feminism, and Fantasy Role-Playing Games
Rebecca Borah and Inez Schaechterle

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Geeks at Play: Doing Masculinity in an Online Gaming Site
Natasha Chen Christensen

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Body Matters in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
C. Jason Smith

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Multi-Player Computer Gaming: "Better than playing (PC Games) with yourself"
Melanie Swalwell

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Making Happiness in West Egg and Simburbia: An Inquiry into Consumption in The Great Gatsby and The Sims
Shawn Thomson

Digital Extensions and Performed Players: A Theoretical Model for the Video/Computer Game
Ben Fisler

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You Need Love and Friendship for this Mission!: The Final Fantasy Series as Social Education for Japanese Youth
Ben Hourigan

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"The Horror is Alive": Immersion, Spectatorship, and the Cinematics of Fear in the Survival Horror Genre
Jay McRoy

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Role Playing Games as Interactive Fiction
John Miller

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"When a Killer Body Isn’t Enough": Cross-Gender Identification in Action-Adventure Video Games
Marc Ouellette

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Imagined Cities, Real Futures: SimCity and the Co-Production of Urban Dystopias
Samuel Gerald Collins

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Shooters to the Left of Us, Shooters to the Right: First Person Arcade Shooter Video Games, the Violence Debate, and the Legacy of Militarism
Karen J. Hall

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The Postmodern Hoard: Rates of Exchange in Role-Playing Games
Carlos Hernandez

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little gods and little heroes: Hyperreal Ethics in God Games and Online Gaming
G. Christopher Williams

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The Game's Afoot: Images of Infinite Games in Samuel Delany's Trouble on Triton
Marc R. Zaldivar