Game work: language, power, and computer game culture

1. Studying the computer game complex

Computer games as a mass culture

Computer games as mass media

Computer games as psychophysiological force

Computer games as economic force

Computer games as instructional force

So, why study computer games?

2. A grammar of gamework

Rhetoric and dialectic

Propositions of the gamework

The problematic of play

The grammar of gameworks: analyzing the computer game complex

3. Capturing imaginations: rhetoric in the art of computer game development

Rhetorical functions revisited

Rhetoric in the discourse of game developers

Working through the grammar of gameworks: agents, influences, manifestations, and transformative locales

4. Making meanings out of contradictions: the work of computer game reviewing

Computer game reviewing online

Computer game reviewing in print

Playing up influence to influence play

Reviewing the meanings of the computer game complex

5. The economies of black & white

Defining economies

The "purchase" of natural resources

The "purchase" of spiritual resources

The "purchase" of temporal resources

The work of black & white

Transformative locales: economic force as game work.