Encountering the Platform Game: Player Resistance Formations and the Reproduction of Consumption in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games
Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media
Published online on December 04, 2025
Abstract
Games and Culture, Ahead of Print.
The homogenized identity of game players provides fertile ground for platform studies to transcend the producer/consumer dichotomy and examine the process by which platforms shift the “labor–capital” contradiction. This study traces diverse player ...
The homogenized identity of game players provides fertile ground for platform studies to transcend the producer/consumer dichotomy and examine the process by which platforms shift the “labor–capital” contradiction. This study traces diverse player ...