| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020). |
| Subject |
Video games industry -- Employees -- Job satisfaction -- Middle West.
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Video game designers -- Job satisfaction -- Middle West.
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Video games industry -- Social aspects -- Middle West.
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Ethnology -- Middle West.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Ethnology. (OCoLC)fst00916106
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Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bulut, Ergin. A precarious game. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501746529 (DLC) 2019020927 |
| ISBN |
9781501746550 (electronic publication) |
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1501746553 (electronic publication) |
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1501746545 (electronic book) |
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9781501746543 (electronic book) |
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