Games in the Platform Economy: Steam's Tangled Markets
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Games in the Platform Economy : Steam's Tangled Markets. / Thorhauge, Anne Mette.
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023. 156 s.Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Games in the Platform Economy
T2 - Steam's Tangled Markets
AU - Thorhauge, Anne Mette
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming.Offering valuable empirical work on Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform, Thorhauge examines the architecture of this global online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions. Drawing on infrastructure, software, platform and game studies, the book interrogates the implications of these transactions, both in terms of their legality, but also in how they create new forms of immaterial labour.Shedding new light on a previously under-explored branch of the study of digital platforms, this book brings a unique economic sociology perspective into the growing literature on videogame studies.
AB - This book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming.Offering valuable empirical work on Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform, Thorhauge examines the architecture of this global online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions. Drawing on infrastructure, software, platform and game studies, the book interrogates the implications of these transactions, both in terms of their legality, but also in how they create new forms of immaterial labour.Shedding new light on a previously under-explored branch of the study of digital platforms, this book brings a unique economic sociology perspective into the growing literature on videogame studies.
UR - https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/games-in-the-platform-economy
M3 - Book
SN - 9781529223040
BT - Games in the Platform Economy
PB - Bristol University Press
CY - Bristol
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