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1. Flow TV

   Television in the Age of Media Convergence

   Edited by Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok

   From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television as a discrete object. Flow TV examines...

   Published September 13th 2010 by Routledge
2. Joystick Soldiers

   The Politics of Play in Military Video Games

   Edited by Nina B. Huntemann, Matthew Thomas Payne

   Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962.While war video games began as entertainment, military...

   Published August 5th 2009 by Routledge