DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/R5G15XSM

Discursive Games and Gamic Discourses

Authors

Gerald Voorhees, Oregon State UniversityFollow

Abstract

Digital games are an increasingly prominent media form but are consistently ignored in critical communication scholarship. Several voices in the field of game studies have advocated the application of communication and rhetorical theory to the study of games, but this effort to cross-pollinate game studies and communication studies has not been reciprocated. This article addresses this lacunae, making the case for critical studies of communication to take up the study of digital games. I argue that digital games are both ready objects of inquiry well-suited for rhetorical methods and generative sites with the potential to stimulate thinking about communication processes in general and rhetoric in particular.

Recommended Citation

Voorhees, Gerald (2012) "Discursive Games and Gamic Discourses," communication +1: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol1/iss1/3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/R5G15XSM