Games in the Platform Economy: Steam's Tangled Markets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781529223040)

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.

Author: Anne Mette Thorhauge
ISBN-10: 1529223040
ISBN-13: 9781529223040
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d