Description: "Covers the political, social, cultural, economic, and technological implications that EA's FIFA has in the shaping of the modern culture of football"--
Brief description: Carlin Wing is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Scripps College, USA. She is an artist, educator, and media scholar. She is co-editor of The Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation, has published writing in Games and Culture, Public Books, Cabinet, and The Bulletin of the Serving Library, and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her current book project, Bounce: A History of Balls, Walls, and Gaming Bodies, follows an array of bouncing balls through the histories of electronic and non-electronic games, across the spectrum of play, game, and sport and into the domains of physics, material science, animation, and computing in order to describe the worldviews and cultural contests that have been embedded in the architectures, instruments, and gestures of games of ball.
Review Quotes:
"In this timely and much needed book, leading and emerging scholars provide new and necessary insights into a cultural phenomenon, that has always been more than just a game. By critically considering different aspects, and from perspectives, EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game provides a detailed and thought-provoking consideration of the impact this game series has had on the nature of video games, sport, and wider cultural life." --Garry Crawford, Professor of Sociology, University of Salford, UK
"This is a book whose time has come. Through a careful multidisciplinary focus on the FIFA video game franchise, the authors take up issues that range from the aesthetic complexities of digital play to forms of fandom, as well paying important attention to inclusion and gender. This collection offers a wonderfully rich engagement with one of the most popular titles around and is a must read for both sports and game scholars alike." --T.L. Taylor, Professor of Comparative Media Studies, MIT, USA "This innovative and original collection of essays on the cultural significance of the videogame FIFA emphasises the blurring of our digital and material worlds. This book helps explain why, for millions of people around the world, the simulated experience of EA Sports FIFA series endures as a central aspect of diverse football and gaming cultures. For anyone interested in understanding the interplay between sport and videogames, and how this has transformed the mediatisation of sport more widely, this is an important collection." --Richard Haynes, Professor of Media Sport, University of Stirling, UK "A much-needed multidisciplinary contribution" --American Journal of Play!