This book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming. Offering valuable empirical work on Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform, Thorhauge examines the architecture of this global online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions. Drawing on infrastructure, software, platform and game studies, the book interrogates the implications of these transactions, both in terms of their legality, but also in how they create new forms of immaterial labour. Shedding new light on a previously under-explored branch of the study of digital platforms, this book brings a unique economic sociology perspective into the growing literature on videogame studies.
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Anne Mette Thorhauge is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen.Bu e-kitabı satın alın ve 1 tane daha ÜCRETSİZ kazanın!
Dil İngilizce ● Biçim EPUB ● Sayfalar 156 ● ISBN 9781529223057 ● Dosya boyutu 1.6 MB ● Yayımcı Bristol University Press ● Kent Bristol ● Ülke GB ● Yayınlanan 2023 ● Baskı 1 ● İndirilebilir 24 aylar ● Döviz EUR ● Kimlik 9194953 ● Kopya koruma Adobe DRM
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