Playbour in the Digital Games:A Case Study of Fantasy Westward Journey
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Jing BaoAuthors Info & Claims
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The problem of playbour in digital games has always been a key research field of the political economy of communication. The following issues are widely disputed: the productivity of playbour, the exploitation and monitoring of playbour, and the initiative of palybour. This article expolres the playbour problem in the game world by conducting a digital ethnographic investigation of the online game “ Fantasy Westward Journey”.
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