Abstract
A precarious game: The illusion of dream jobs in the video game industryErginBulutCornell University Press: New York, (2020). Available for $23.95 in paperback
Highlights
Ergin Bulut’s insightful exploration of the games industry exposes the precarious and unstable nature of game labour
The book critiques the personal, social and emotional costs, and the toxic implications, of unequal power relations embedded in methods of production in the games industry
The introduction situates the book amid the structural and market mechanisms that pervade game labour. It follows a body of work challenging the myth of the ‘dream job’, contrasting glamourous and ludic work with exploitative and precarious work conditions (Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter, 2009 and Woodcock, 2019)
Summary
Ergin Bulut’s insightful exploration of the games industry exposes the precarious and unstable nature of game labour. The book critiques the personal, social and emotional costs, and the toxic implications, of unequal power relations embedded in methods of production in the games industry.
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