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    Player Production and innovation in Online Games - Time for New Rules?


    Kerr, Aphra (2011) Player Production and innovation in Online Games - Time for New Rules? In: Online Gaming in Context: The social and cultural significance of online games. Routledge, London, pp. 25-39. ISBN 9780203869598

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    Abstract

    Capitalism’s relentless search for innovation and creativity, or what used to be called novelty, drives a constant search for new ideas, new sources of ideas (not just internal research and development departments but also suppliers, clients, users and others) and for new ways to appropriate these ideas. Academics have attempted to understand these trends with a range of theories focused on the changing user-producer relationship and innovation processes. The chapter cautions against taking an overly optimistic or overly negative approach to such developments. It asks us to consider what is behind the increasing tendency to encourage user productions and what do empirical examination of such productions reveal? Is what we are observing actually co-creation or is it that the professional media industries are finding new ways to encourage player production and to appropriate and extract value from this labour? Finally, are the relationships between professional game producers and game players governed and regulated in the most effective and fair manner to recognize and reward each actor? Online games provide a fertile, but diverse, ground to empirically and conceptually explore the concept of player and community production and innovation.

    Item Type: Book Section
    Keywords: Player Production; innovation; Online Games; Time; New Rules;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
    Item ID: 18979
    Depositing User: Prof. Aphra Kerr
    Date Deposited: 08 Oct 2024 09:21
    Publisher: Routledge
    Refereed: Yes
    Funders: PRTLI
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      Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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