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Games in the Platform Economy - Anne Mette Thorhauge

Games in the Platform Economy

Steam's Tangled Markets
Buch | Hardcover
156 Seiten
2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2304-0 (ISBN)
CHF 149,95 inkl. MwSt
This book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming with a unique economic sociology perspective. Paying particular attention to Valve's 'Steam' platform, the book examines the architecture of this online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions.
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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Technik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Marketing / Vertrieb
ISBN-10 1-5292-2304-0 / 1529223040
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-2304-0 / 9781529223040
Zustand Neuware
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