America's digital army: games at work and war

"America's Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen's fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies...

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1. Verfasser: Allen, Robertson (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln ; London University of Nebraska Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Anthropology of contemporary North America
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Zusammenfassung:"America's Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen's fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies that worked to produce the official U.S. Army video game, America's Army. Allen uncovers the methods by which gaming technologies such as America's Army, with military funding and themes, engage in a militarization of American society that constructs everyone, even nonplayers of games, as virtual soldiers available for deployment. America's Digital Army examines the army's desire for "talented" soldiers capable of high-tech work; beliefs about America's enemies as reflected in the game's virtual combatants; tensions over best practices in military recruiting; and the sometimes overlapping cultures of gamers, game developers, and soldiers. Allen reveals how binary categorizations such as soldier versus civilian, war versus game, work versus play, and virtual versus real become blurred...if not broken down entirely...through games and interactive media that reflect the U.S. military's ludic imagination of future wars, enemies, and soldiers."...
"An ethnographic study based on scholar Robertson Allen's years of behind-the-scenes ethnographic fieldwork within the work environments of the video game developers, military strategists, enlisted soldiers, and defense contractors who produced the official U.S. Army video game, "America's Army.""...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 199 Seiten
ISBN:9780803285293
9781496201911
9781496200617

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