Games in the Platform Economy : Steam's Tangled Markets, Hardcover by Thorhau...

Description: Games in the Platform Economy : Steam's Tangled Markets, Hardcover by Thorhauge, Anne Mette, ISBN 1529223040, ISBN-13 9781529223040, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book examines the evolution of 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, th interrogates the implications of these transactions, both in terms of their legality, but also in how they create new forms of immaterial new light on a previously under-explored branch of the study of platforms, this book brings a unique economic sociology perspective into the growing literature on videogame studies.

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Book Title: Games in the Platform Economy : Steam's Tangled Markets

Number of Pages: 156 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Games in the Platform Economy : Steam's Tangled Markets

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Subject: Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Media Studies, Electronic Commerce (See Also Headings under Business & Economics / E-Commerce)

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 2023

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 21.2 Oz

Subject Area: Computers, Social Science, Business & Economics

Item Length: 9.2 in

Author: Anne Mette Thorhauge

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Hardcover