TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bulut, Ergin
TI  - A precarious game : the illusion of dream jobs in the video game industry
SN  - 9781501746536
AV  - HD 9993.E452 B34P 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca : 
PB  - ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 
KW  - ETHNOLOGY
KW  - MIDDLE WEST
KW  - VIDEO GAMES INDUSTRY
KW  - SOCIAL ASPECTS
KW  - VIDEO GAME DESIGNERS
KW  - JOB SATISFACTION
KW  - EMPLOYEES
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : for whom the love works in video game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the city : how a game studio revitalized a downtown space in the Silicon Prairie -- The production of communicative developers in the affective game studio -- Reproducing technomasculinity : spouses' classed femininities and domestic labor -- Game testers as precarious second-class citizens : degradation of fun, instrumentalization of play -- Production error : layoffs hit the core creatives -- Conclusion : reimagining labor and love in and beyond game production
ER  -