Paid to Play: Games as mass communication tools
Description
The 2010s have seen video games rise to prominence as platforms for game developers, entertainers and advertisers to broadcast their ideas. This paper looks at the major steps in gaming history that led to games as a global mass communication tool, the way the Internet has created an industry built around broadcasting games and the potential future ramifications competitive gaming, emerging technology and intellectual property law hold on the world of video games.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2016-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Chesler, Jayson Daniel
- Thesis director: Hill, Retha
- Committee member: Amresh, Ashish
- Contributor (ctb): Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College