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Fuel, Fatigue, Fashion: Towards a Media Ecology of Game Industry Conventions
Taylor Nicholas Dial A. Joseph
2020 DiGRA ’20 – Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere
This presentation provisionally reports on qualitative fieldwork at games industry conventions in the Southeast United States. Such conventions offer compelling glimpses into how regional games industries pitch game production to aspirational and existing workers, player communities, and partners in government, education, and adjacent industries. Adopting a media ecological approach which begins with indexes of the mundane artifacts and practices that make up a given context, we offer a critical consideration of three such artifacts that stood out to us during our fieldwork: cargo shorts, soda cans, and massage chairs. Situating each artifact culturally, historically, and within the context of this convention itself, we reveal a set of insights regarding the ways game production --and games workers--are envisioned and enacted during a particularly tumultuous time for the industry.
Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action in Local Games Industries
Abraham Benjamin Keogh Brendan
2019 DiGRA '19 - Abstract Proceedings of the 2019 DiGRA International Conference: Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo-Mix