Enacting Platforms
Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2024
Summary
An analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as well as a critique of the platform studies framework itself.
In this first scholarly book on the Unreal game engine, James Malazita explores one of the major contemporary game development platforms through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, revealing how Unreal produces, and is produced by, broader intersections of power. Enacting Platforms tak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548243 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262548240 |
| Author: | James Malazita |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Platform Studies |
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“Enacting Platforms serves as an essential bridge between the various strands surrounding platform studies. Malazita not only recognizes the multitude of novel modes of cultural production enabled by these frameworks but also deftly navigates their technical, cultural, and practical implications in a subfield where these components are often regarded separately.”
—International Journal of Communication
About The Author
James Malazita
James Malazita is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Associate Director of the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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