A Precarious Game : The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry /
"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"--
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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2020.
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A Precarious Game : |b The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry / |c Ergin Bulut. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
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