Gaming for Beginners

Publication Type  Journal Article
Year of Publication  2006
Authors  Miller,Toby
Journal Title  Games and Culture
Volume  1
Pagination  5-12
Abstract  

This article examines the history of moral panics about media, gleans some lessons from media studies that can help the study of electronic games, and is critical of both utopic and dystopic, cybertarian and pessimistic accounts of gaming.

URL  http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/5

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