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A Precarious Game
The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
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ISBN-13:
9781501746550
Veröffentl:
2020
Seiten:
222
Autor:
Ergin Bulut
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South.
Introduction: For Whom the Love Works in Video Game Production?1. The Unequal Ludopolitical Regime of Game Production: Who Can Play, Who Has to Work?2. The End of the Garage Studio as a Technomasculine Space: Financial Security, Streamlined Creativity, and Signs of Friction3. Gaming the City: How a Game Studio Revitalized a Downtown Space in the Silicon Prairie4. The Production of Communicative Developers in the Affective Game Studio5. Reproducing Technomasculinity: Spouses' Classed Femininities and Domestic Labor6. Game Testers as Precarious Second-Class Citizens: Degradation of Fun, Instrumentalization of Play7. Production Error: Layoffs Hit the Core CreativesConclusion: Reimagining Labor and Love in and beyond Game Production
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