Videogames and the digital sublime

Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 94-108

  Shinkle, Eugénie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84994309186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230391345     Document Type: Chapter

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