Gaming for Beginners
Games and CulturePublished 7 December 2005
Toby Miller
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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.
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