A precarious game : the illusion of dream jobs in the video game industry /

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"This book reveals the unequal politics of game development as a dream job, which only privileged subjects can enjoy, while many others have to face significant social and individual costs"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bulut, Ergin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.
Temas:
Video games industry > Employees > Job satisfaction > Middle West.
Video game designers > Job satisfaction > Middle West.
Video games industry > Social aspects > Middle West.
Ethnology > Middle West.
Jeux vidéo > Industrie > Personnel > Satisfaction au travail > Midwest (États-Unis)
Développeurs de jeux vidéo > Satisfaction au travail > Midwest (États-Unis)
Jeux vidéo > Industrie > Aspect social > Midwest (États-Unis)
Ethnologie > Midwest (États-Unis)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Ethnology
Middle West
video games, labor studies, e-sports, game development, gender inequality.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production?
  • The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work?
  • The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction
  • Gaming the city : how Studio Desire revitalized a downtown space in the Silicon Prairie
  • The production of communicative developers in the affective game studio
  • Reproducing technomasculinity : spouses' classed femininities and domestic labor
  • Game testers as precarious second-class citizens : degradation of fun, instrumentalization of play
  • Production error : layoffs hit the core creatives
  • Conclusion : reimagining labor and love in and beyond game production.

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