Kerr Global Games

Production in the Digital Game Industry
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-135-11451-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

The games industry is an exemplary case of the interconnections between the media, communication, and cultural industries in contemporary Western economies and societies, sometimes conceptualized as the creative industries. In this book, Kerr examines the political-economic and social changes that have taken place in the global games industry over the past five years. Drawing upon interviews with key individuals in the games industry and empirical analyses of gameworlds, this book aims to reveal the politics and power behind transnational games corporations and how they have globalised their production networks, but at the same time localized and hybridized their games' content and form. It will also examine the rise of independent game producers and the new roles for game players.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kerr, Aphra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Globalization and Technology 3. Cultural Production and Creative Work 4. Cultural Production and Circulation Work 5. Placing the Industry 6. Regulating the Industry 7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Aphra Kerr is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on media and society, technology and culture, internet cultures and fieldwork research methods. She is the author of The Business and Culture of Digital Games.