Games in the Platform Economy

Steam's Tangled Markets
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2304-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mette Thorhauge, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Steam’s tangled markets

2. Platform configurations in gaming

3. Economic sociology and the analysis of platforms as markets

4. Valve corporation and the Steam platform

5. Steam’s business model

6. Shaping market interactions on the Steam platform

7. Economic actors on the steam platform

8. Player trading beyond Steam

9. User monetisation and value creation in tangled markets

Über Autor(innen)

Mette Thorhauge, Anne
Anne Mette Thorhauge is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen.