Crushing Candy: The Free-to-Play Game in Its Connective Commodity Form
The goal of this article is to add a complementary perspective to the study of social network sites by surveying how the political economy of social media platforms relates to the structure of free-to-play games in their commodity form. Drawing on the theory of multisided markets and critical politi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-12-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115621932 |