%0 Journal Article %1 apperley_game_2012 %A Apperley, Thomas H. %A Jayemane, Darshana %D 2012 %J Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture %K digital game-studies intellectual interdisciplinarity internalist %N 1 %P 5--25 %T Game Studies' Material Turn %V 9 %X This article argues that among the burgeoning approaches to game studies there is a crucial re-imagining of digital games in their material contexts across different scales and registers: the machine, the body and the situations of play. This re-imagining can be seen in a number of approaches: platform and software studies, which examine the materiality of code and/or the technological infrastructure through which it is enacted; critical studies of digital labour; and detailed ethnographic studies that examine the cultures of online worlds and situate gaming in relation to everyday practices. The article traces these three strands, focusing on how they demonstrate a heightening of the stakes in game studies research by providing access to scale and connecting digital games research to wider interdisciplinary contexts.

@article{apperley_game_2012, abstract = {This article argues that among the burgeoning approaches to game studies there is a crucial re-imagining of digital games in their material contexts across different scales and registers: the machine, the body and the situations of play. This re-imagining can be seen in a number of approaches: platform and software studies, which examine the materiality of code and/or the technological infrastructure through which it is enacted; critical studies of digital labour; and detailed ethnographic studies that examine the cultures of online worlds and situate gaming in relation to everyday practices. The article traces these three strands, focusing on how they demonstrate a heightening of the stakes in game studies research by providing access to scale and connecting digital games research to wider interdisciplinary contexts.}, added-at = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, author = {Apperley, Thomas H. and Jayemane, Darshana}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23521c1ccf432d80b8fcb371f4125e11c/jpooley}, interhash = {d370e6af0fdfcaf29badaddacb73b3eb}, intrahash = {3521c1ccf432d80b8fcb371f4125e11c}, journal = {Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture}, keywords = {digital game-studies intellectual interdisciplinarity internalist}, number = 1, pages = {5--25}, timestamp = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, title = {Game {{Studies}}' {{Material Turn}}}, volume = 9, year = 2012 }