Title America's digital army : games at work and war / Robertson Allen.

Publication Info.

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Anthropology of contemporary North America
	Anthropology of contemporary North America.
Summary	"An ethnographic study based on scholar Robertson Allen's years of behind-the-scenes ethnographic fieldwork within the work environments of the video game developers, military strategists, enlisted soldiers, and defense contractors who produced the official U.S. Army video game, "America's Army.""-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	America's digital army -- The art of persuasion and the science of manpower -- The artifice of the virtual and the real -- The full-spectrum soft sell of the army experience -- Complicating the military entertainment complex -- The labor of virtual soldiers.
Subject	War video games -- United States.
	War video games -- Social aspects -- United States.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	GAMES -- Video & Electronic.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
	Computer war games. (OCoLC)fst00872697
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form:	Print version: Allen, Robertson. America's digital army 9780803285293 (DLC) 2016050497 (OCoLC)962233012
Standard No.	13318933
ISBN	9781496200631 (electronic bk.)
	1496200632 (electronic bk.)

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