In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have
been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile …

An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people
provide value to the economy with little or no compensation. The computerization of the …

There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media. We use commercial platforms to
express our identity, to build community and to engage politically. At the same time, our …

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and
practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using …

This paper reviews a wide range of scholarly and popular literature to provide an overview
of the current state of online user–generated content (UGC). We describe the UGC value …

Introduction: why still study fans?/Cornel Sandvoss, Jonathan Gray, and C. Lee Harrington--
Fan texts and objects--The death of the reader?: literary theory and the study of texts in …

In The Interface Envelope, James Ash develops a series of concepts to understand how
digital interfaces work to shape the spatial and temporal perception of players. Drawing …

Videogames are important cultural and economic artifacts. They also present challenges
that anticipate the problems inherent in any complex digital interactive system. Not only are …

Computer game modding, from modifying, combines several important issues: digital skills,
play, community, making, and remixing. Yet, little academic work has explored the …

Digital distribution has enabled game studios to reach global audiences and treat mobile
games as services rather than products, creating novel opportunities to develop value …