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Moved by the Aboriginal understandings of songlines or dreaming tracks, Norie Neumark's Voicetracks seeks to deepen an understanding of voice through listening to a variety of voicing/sound/voice projects from Australia, Europe and the United States. Not content with the often dry tone of academic writing, the author engages a "wayfaring" process that brings together theories of sound, animal, and posthumanist studies in order to change the ways we think about and act with the assemblages of living creatures, things, places, and histories around us. Neumark evokes both the literal - the actual voices within the works she examines - and the metaphorical -- in a new materialist exploration of voice encompassing human, animal, thing, and assemblages. She engages with artists working with animal sounds and voices; voices of place, placed voices in installation works; voices of technology; and "unvoicing," disturbances in the image/voice relationship and in the idea of what voice is. She writes about remixes, the Barbie Liberation Organisation, and breath in Beijing, about cat videos, speaking fences in Australia, and an artist who reads (to) the birds. Finally, she considers ethics and politics, and describes how her own work has shaped her understandings and apprehensions of voice.

Voice in art. --- New media art --- Themes, motives. --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art --- ARTS/Music & Sound Studies --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Global Studies --- Arts, Modern

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How culture uses games and how games use culture: an examination of Latin America's gaming practices and the representation of the region's cultures in games.

Video games --- Video gamers --- Gamers, Video --- Players, Video game (Persons) --- Video game players (Persons) --- Persons --- Television games --- Videogames --- Electronic games --- Social aspects --- GAME STUDIES/Games & Culture --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Global Studies --- videospill --- Computer games --- Internet games --- Games

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"Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present - a period when the emergence and consolidation of capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three questions have guided the approach and the structure of this volume. First, how and why have peasant families managed to survive under conditions of advancing commercialisation and industrialisation? Second, why have coercive labour relations been so persistent in the agricultural sector and third, what was the role of states in the recruitment of agricultural workers?"--

History. --- Economic history.  --- Social History. --- Global History. --- Social Sciences. --- Global Studies. --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Agricultural laborers --- Agriculture

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Dal Yong Jin examines the rapid growth of the Korean online game industry from the perspective of political economy, discussing it in social, cultural & economic contexts.

COMPUTERS --- Internet / General --- Internet games --- Video games industry --- Social Sciences --- Recreation & Sports --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- History --- History. --- Video game industry --- Electronic games industry --- Electronic games --- E-books --- GAME STUDIES/Online Games --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Global Studies --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- K9397 --- Korea: Games --- Computer games industry --- Internet games industry --- Electronic industries --- Toy industry --- Computer games --- Television games --- Videogames --- Games --- Video games

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"In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting games to play. But since then, fans, media, and the games industry have thought further about the "Japaneseness" of particular games. Game developers try to decide whether a game's Japaneseness is a selling point or stumbling block; critics try to determine what elements in a game express its Japaneseness--cultural motifs or technical markers. Games were "localized," subjected to sociocultural and technical tinkering. In this book, Mia Consalvo looks at what happens when Japanese games travel outside Japan, and how they are played, thought about, and transformed by individuals, companies, and groups in the West. Consalvo begins with players, first exploring North American players' interest in Japanese games (and Japanese culture in general) and then investigating players' DIY localization of games, in the form of ROM hacking and fan translating. She analyzes several Japanese games released in North America and looks in detail at the Japanese game company Square Enix. She examines indie and corporate localization work, and the rise of the professional culture broker. Finally, she compares different approaches to Japaneseness in games sold in the West and considers how Japanese games have influenced Western games developers. Her account reveals surprising cross-cultural interactions between Japanese games and Western game developers and players, between Japaneseness and the market."--Booki jacket.

Video games --- Video games industry --- Social aspects --- Video game industry --- Television games --- Videogames --- Electronic games industry --- Electronic games --- GAME STUDIES/Game History --- CULTURAL STUDIES/Global Studies --- BUSINESS/Business Technology --- Computer games industry --- Internet games industry --- Electronic industries --- Toy industry --- Computer games --- Internet games --- Games