Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Precarious GameCondition: NewSubtitle: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game IndustryISBN-10: 1501746529EAN: 9781501746529ISBN: 9781501746529Publisher: ILR PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/15/2020Description: 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. A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives. Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 28gAuthor: Ergin BulutGenre: Computing & InternetTopic: Business & Finance, Law & PoliticsItem Width: 22mmRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: A Precarious Game
Title: A Precarious Game
Subtitle: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
ISBN-10: 1501746529
EAN: 9781501746529
ISBN: 9781501746529
Release Date: 03/15/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Precarious Game : the Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
Number of Pages: 222 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Topic: Programming / Games, Labor & Industrial Relations, Sociology / General, Video & Electronic
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Computers, Political Science, Social Science, Games & Activities
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Author: Ergin Bulut
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
