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Games in the Platform Economy on Hardback by Anne Mette Thorhauge
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Games in the Platform Economy

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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.

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Anne Mette Thorhauge is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen.
Release date Australia
September 29th, 2023
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  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
156
ISBN-13
9781529223040
Product ID
35890389

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