Gaming the Iron Curtain : how teenagers and amateurs in communist Czechoslovakia claimed the medium of computer games / Jaroslav Švelch
"Based on oral histories gathered from players, game creators and hobbyists active in the 1980s, as well as archival material like computer club newsletters, official documents, hobby magazines, TV broadcasts and the games produced in the period, Gaming the Iron Curtain offers a social history...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Švelch, Jaroslav (VerfasserIn) |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2018] |
| Schriftenreihe: | Game histories
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| Internet: | Rezension |
| Inhaltsangabe |
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| 1 Micros in the margins : computer technology in the state socialist society |
| 2 Hunting down the machine : trajectories of microcomputer domestication |
| 3 Our amateur can work miracles : infrastructures of hobby computing |
| 4 Who's afraid of gameplay? : Czechoslovak discourses on computer games |
| 5 Lighting up the shadows : informal distribution of game software |
| 6 Bastard children of the West : establishing a domestic coding culture |
| 7 Empowered by games : games as a means of self-expression and activism |
| Conclusion |
| Epilogue: after the curtain fell. |
