Risk-taking behavior of technology firms: The role of performance feedback in the video game industry

Technovation ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 22-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik B.I. Situmeang ◽  
Gerda Gemser ◽  
Nachoem M. Wijnberg ◽  
Mark A.A.M Leenders
Keyword(s):  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Technology Firms ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Risk Taking Behavior

Masculine domination and gender subtexts: The role of female professionals in the renewal of the Swedish video game industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Styhre ◽  
Björn Remneland-Wikhamn ◽  
Anna-Maria Szczepanska ◽  
Jan Ljungberg
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Female Professionals

From geek masculinity to Gamergate: the technological rationality of online abuse

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Salter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Platform Design ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Online Abuse ◽  
Technological Rationality ◽  
Game Industry

In 2014, an orchestrated campaign of online abuse known as Gamergate overtook the global video game industry, calling unprecedented attention to the scope of gendered harassment on social media. Using Gamergate as an example, this article argues that explanations of online abuse that focus on its cultural or technological dimensions fail to capture the mediating role of online platforms in facilitating and rationalizing harassment and reputational damage. The concept of technological rationality pulls into focus the shared logics that shape platform design and administration as well as practices of online abuse. Proposed solutions to online abuse that fail to address technological rationality will ultimately leave in place the sociotechnical arrangements that make such abuse possible and impactful.

User entrepreneurship in the video game industry: the role of communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-701
Author(s):  
Barbara Del Bosco ◽  
Roberto Chierici ◽  
Alice Mazzucchelli
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Opportunity Identification ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
User Entrepreneurs

PurposeThis paper investigates the user entrepreneurship process in the video game industry, and how this process is influenced by the interactions between user entrepreneurs and communities.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents an exploratory multiple case study on 17 firms founded in the video game industry by Italian users.FindingsThe findings show that in most of the cases analysed, innovation by users precedes identification of the entrepreneurial opportunity. This research identifies three categories of communities that provide different forms of support to user entrepreneurs: communities of (1) gamers/users, (2) developers/innovators and (3) entrepreneurs. Given the different role played, the three categories of communities have a different relevance during the various phases of the innovation and entrepreneurial path: communities of gamers/users and of developers/innovators affect innovation development and opportunity identification, while communities of entrepreneurs help users to evolve from opportunity recognition to the start-up of a firm.Originality/valueThis study investigates the video game industry, a context in which user entrepreneurship is under-researched and that is characterized by the intangible nature of the products (while previous studies have mainly focused on physical goods). It contributes to extant literature by revealing that, at the beginning of the end-user entrepreneurial process, there may be not only unmet needs but also “excitement-driven” innovations. Moreover, by analysing the whole entrepreneurial path, the study shows how three categories of communities (gamers/users, developers/innovators and entrepreneurs) provide different forms of support to user entrepreneurs in the different phases of the entrepreneurial process.

scholarly journals "Too Human" versus the enthusiast press: Video game journalists as mediators of commodity value

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Immaterial Labor ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
The Way

This article examines the role of mediators in the production of commodity value, arguing that there is a rise in a kind of immaterial labor, shaped by contemporary conditions of late capitalism, that functions explicitly as a mediating force. In this example, video game journalists are understood as actively engaged in producing and negotiating the value and meaning of video games for both producers and consumers. By specifically examining a moment of value contestation, a podcast debate between a journalist and a game developer, this article traces the mediating practices of the enthusiast gaming press and examines the way their history with and relationship to the video game industry continue to structure their ability to filter knowledge and shape desires.

The End of Casual: Long Live Casual

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shira Chess ◽  
Christopher A. Paul
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
Games Studies ◽  
Casual Games ◽  
Game Industry

This special issue is meant to provide an intervention. We are undertaking this project to broaden the corpus of Games Studies by both critiquing casual as a label, yet simultaneously legitimizing it as an important category of both study and play. Additionally, historicizing the terms casual and hardcore as categories uncovers the ways that the video game industry talks about its products and how academic work often replicates biases against casual games. To this end, we argue that the centrality of core games pushes many important texts to the margins. It is our goal, within this special issue, to revalue and reconsider the role of casual games within the larger ecology of game studies.

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