{"product_id":"unit-operations-an-appoach-to-videogame-criticism","title":"Unit Operations: An Appoach to Videogame Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Unit Operations  Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation  proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames. Moreover  this approach can be applied beyond videogames: Bogost suggests that any medium--from videogames to poetry  literature  cinema  or art--can be read as a configurative system of discrete  interlocking units of meaning  and he illustrates this method of analysis with examples from all these fields. The marriage of literary theory and information technology  he argues  will help humanists take technology more seriously and hep technologists better understand software and videogames as cultural artifacts. This approach is especially useful for the comparative analysis of digital and nondigital artifacts and allows scholars from other fields who are interested in studying videogames to avoid the esoteric isolation of \"game studies.\"The richness of Bogosts comparative approach can be seen in his discussions of works by such philosophers and theorists as Plato  Badiou  Zizek  and McLuhan  and in his analysis of numerous videogames including Pong  Half-Life  and Star Wars Galaxies. Bogost draws on object technology and complex adaptive systems theory for his method of unit analysis  underscoring the configurative aspects of a wide variety of human processes. His extended analysis of freedom in large virtual spaces examines Grand Theft Auto 3  The Legend of Zelda  Flauberts Madame Bovary  and Joyces Ulysses. In Unit Operations  Bogost not only offers a new methodology for videogame criticism but argues for the possibility of real collaboration between the humanities and information technology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44947838206005,"sku":"ByrdShop_026202599X","price":226.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262025997.jpg?v=1770030190","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/unit-operations-an-appoach-to-videogame-criticism","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}