The Corruption of Play

The Corruption of Play

Christopher McMahon

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Emerald Publishing Ltd
Año de edición:
2022
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Teoría social
ISBN:
9781801177375

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The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play.

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