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Cover Games in the Platform Economy

Games in the Platform Economy

Steam’s Tangled Markets

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Author:
Anne Mette Thorhauge

This book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming with a unique economic sociology perspective. Paying particular attention to Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform, the book examines the architecture of this online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions.

Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Publication Date:
29 Sep 2023
Online ISBN:
9781529223064
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529223064
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Front Matter
Front Matter
1: Introduction: Steam’s Tangled Markets
2: Platform Configurations in Gaming
3: Economic Sociology and the Analysis of Platforms as Markets
4: Valve Corporation and the Steam Platform
5: Steam’s Business Model
6: Shaping Market Interactions on the Steam Platform
7: Economic Actors on the Steam Platform
8: Player Trading beyond Steam
9: User Monetization and Value Creation in Tangled Markets
Back Matter
Notes
References
Index

This book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming.

Offering valuable empirical work on Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform, Thorhauge examines the architecture of this global online videogame marketplace and the way it enables new markets and economic transactions. Drawing on infrastructure, software, platform and game studies, the book interrogates the implications of these transactions, both in terms of their legality, but also in how they create new forms of immaterial labour.

Shedding new light on a previously under-explored branch of the study of digital platforms, this book brings a unique economic sociology perspective into the growing literature on videogame studies.

Anne Mette Thorhauge is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen.

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© Bristol University Press 2023
Hardback ISBN:
9781529223040
ePub ISBN:
9781529223057
Online ISBN:
9781529223064
Page Extent:
156
Keywords:
Valve; Steam; tangled market; platform economy; online games
Global Social Challenges:
Technology, Data and Society
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Subject:
Business, Management and Economics, Economy, Technology and Society, Science, Technology and Society, Science, Technology and Society, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Science and Technology, Sociology of the Media
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