Overcoming the Exploitation of Passion in Videogame Labor - Playing With Passion

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Jackson is lecturer of computer games modeling and animation at the University of Derby. Klappentext In this book, Joshua Jackson examines how passion becomes weaponized in videogame production and what contextual issues people in the videogame production industry are facing. Using certain theorizations regarding, passion, bodies, assembly, and assemblage, this text wrestles with what can be done to manifest change in videogames. Zusammenfassung In this book, Joshua Jackson examines how passion becomes weaponized in videogame production and what contextual issues people in the videogame production industry are facing. Using certain theorizations regarding, passion, bodies, assembly, and assemblage, this text wrestles with what can be done to manifest change in videogames. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions Chapter 1: Multifaceted Manifestations: Cruel Optimistic Attachment Chapter 2: Systematics of Precarity: Or, how the capitalist socius ascribes value to precarity Chapter 3: Towards a Theorization of Precarities Chapter 4: The Processual Assemblage and Utopics: Getting to the Good Stuff Chapter 5: Ontoethical Praxis Conclusion: It's All Over but the Crying Bibliography About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Jackson
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781666915259
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-525-9
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Studies in New Media
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Media, entertainment, information & communication industries, Media, Information & Communication Industries