This article explores affective and immaterial labor on the leading live-streaming platform,
Twitch. tv, which boasts over one hundred million regular viewers and two million regular …

Around the world, myriad workers perform micro-tasks on online platforms to train and
calibrate artificial intelligence solutions. Despite its apparent openness to anyone with basic …

This article introduces a special issue critically investigating contemporary formations of
digital game labor, with a focus on the political-economic forces, social inequalities, and …

Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a
player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new …

This article investigates the experiences of digital game testers working in external quality
assurance departments in Poland. As compared with video game developers, testers have …

Historically, crafts have been associated with women's small-scale creative production in the
home, equated with hobbies or amateur production, and devalued in comparison to both art …

Camille Alloing est professeur en relations publiques à l'Université du Québec à Montréal
(UQAM), après avoir été maître de conférences à l'IAE de l'université de Poitiers, ingénieur …

Parmi les signes en circulation sur les plateformes du web social, les emoji tiennent un rôle
particulier. De nature graphique, ils sont employés autant par les usagers que par les …

This article explores rhetorical practices underlying productive deliberation about climate
change. We analyze discussion of climate change on a Reddit subforum to demonstrate that …

Community management is an important but relatively understudied facet of computer game
development. This article begins filling this gap by examining how community managers in …