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| 505 | 8 | |a Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Ethnographer's Dilemma: To Understand a World That Is Not Your Own While Avoiding to Misrepresenting It -- Introduction: Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Anthropologist's Predicament -- The Ethnographer's Assignment: To Unveil Everyday Practices and Their Meaning -- The Study: Methodological Issues -- Design of the Study -- The Social Science Ethnography Literature -- Technology-Based Ethnographies -- The Mode of Production: Indie Game Development and the Video Game Industry -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Connecting the Ethnographic Data to Theoretical Frameworks -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 2: Governing Innovation-Led Economies: The Role of Business Creation and Creativity -- Introduction: Problem, Purpose, and Research Question -- Purpose and Research Question -- Innovation-Led Growth in a Finance-Led Economy -- The State of Venturing and Entrepreneurialism -- The Supply of Venture Capital -- The Creation and Operation of Private Venture Capital Markets -- Private Venture Capital Investment Performance -- Why Venture Capital Investors Commit Their Capital to High-Risk Ventures -- How Venture Capital Investors Commit Their Capital to High-Risk Ventures -- Intuition-Based Venture Capital Investment Decisions -- The Return on Equity of Venture Capital Investment: Measuring Performance -- Other Ways of Financing Development Work: On the IPO Trail -- State-Funding Redux -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Passionate Worker and Deeply Meaningful Work -- Introduction -- Passion and Meaning in Day-to-Day Work -- Affective Labour -- The Passion of Everyday Work -- The Authenticity Criterion in Creative Work -- Studies of Passionate Work -- On Gaming: A Sense of Being Alive | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Sacred and the Profane and the Rules of Conduct -- Play Versus Games -- A Taxonomy of Game -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Part II: The Empirical Material -- Chapter 4: Who Is an Indie Developer? Sorting Out the Categories -- Introduction -- Classification as Social Practice -- To Classify the Indie Developer and the Indie Video Game -- Indie as Attitude and Identity -- Industry Structure Conditions -- Indie and Labour Market Structure -- The Output: Indie Games -- Classification Systems and the Making of a Social Order -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Social Norms in the Developer Community: The Ambiguity of Money-Making -- Introduction -- The Ambiguous Nature of Money in Entrepreneurial Work -- Money and Their Social Significance and Meaning -- On Money and Money-Making in Indie Video Game Development -- The Ambiguous Nature of Money-Making -- Passionate Game Development -- In Defence of the Business Side of Video Game Development -- The Fickle and Ambiguous Nature of Money and Money-Making -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: In the Venture Capital Market: Raising Funds and Dealing with Investors and Financiers -- Introduction -- Investing and Raising Venture Capital in Indie Video Game Development -- Digital Distribution on a Global Market: Coping with Market Risks -- User Reviews, Clicks, and Media Attention -- Raising Funds and Dealing with Investors and Financiers -- A Word from the Investors -- Alternative Sources of Funding: Crowdfunding -- Culture Grants and Other Forms of State Funding -- Indirect Support of Indie Developers: The Role of Incubators in Making Indie Studios Business-Like -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Expanding the Video Game Concept: The Perceptual and Epistemological Bases of the Digital Objects -- Introduction | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Modernist Theory of Perception: Seeing as Trained Capacity -- Modern Visual Media -- Visual Perception and Imaginative Capacity -- Video Games and the Technology of the Fantastic -- Developing the Video Game Technology: Novel Applications and New Thinking -- The Skills Needed to Conceive of New Game Applications and genres -- New Thinking and New Ideas as the Driver of Innovation -- Gamification and Its Uses -- Business Concerns and Creative Inspiration in Video Game Development -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Passionate Production in the Shadow of the Market: The Prospects of Innovation-Led Growth -- Introduction -- A Post-Heroic Theory of Creativity -- The Post-Heroic View of Creativity in Video Game Development -- The Limited Value of Gaming Ideas -- The Primacy of the Team Production Activities -- The Absence of Big Name Character -- Managing Post-Heroic Creative Work: Practical Implications -- Passionate Work and Innovation-Led Growth -- Contributions to Management Studies and Organization Theory -- Implications for Industry Policy -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Index | |
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Sorting Out the Categories -- Introduction -- Classification as Social Practice -- To Classify the Indie Developer and the Indie Video Game -- Indie as Attitude and Identity -- Industry Structure Conditions -- Indie and Labour Market Structure -- The Output: Indie Games -- Classification Systems and the Making of a Social Order -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Social Norms in the Developer Community: The Ambiguity of Money-Making -- Introduction -- The Ambiguous Nature of Money in Entrepreneurial Work -- Money and Their Social Significance and Meaning -- On Money and Money-Making in Indie Video Game Development -- The Ambiguous Nature of Money-Making -- Passionate Game Development -- In Defence of the Business Side of Video Game Development -- The Fickle and Ambiguous Nature of Money and Money-Making -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: In the Venture Capital Market: Raising Funds and Dealing with Investors and Financiers -- Introduction -- Investing and Raising Venture Capital in Indie Video Game Development -- Digital Distribution on a Global Market: Coping with Market Risks -- User Reviews, Clicks, and Media Attention -- Raising Funds and Dealing with Investors and Financiers -- A Word from the Investors -- Alternative Sources of Funding: Crowdfunding -- Culture Grants and Other Forms of State Funding -- Indirect Support of Indie Developers: The Role of Incubators in Making Indie Studios Business-Like -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Expanding the Video Game Concept: The Perceptual and Epistemological Bases of the Digital Objects -- Introduction The Modernist Theory of Perception: Seeing as Trained Capacity -- Modern Visual Media -- Visual Perception and Imaginative Capacity -- Video Games and the Technology of the Fantastic -- Developing the Video Game Technology: Novel Applications and New Thinking -- The Skills Needed to Conceive of New Game Applications and genres -- New Thinking and New Ideas as the Driver of Innovation -- Gamification and Its Uses -- Business Concerns and Creative Inspiration in Video Game Development -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Passionate Production in the Shadow of the Market: The Prospects of Innovation-Led Growth -- Introduction -- A Post-Heroic Theory of Creativity -- The Post-Heroic View of Creativity in Video Game Development -- The Limited Value of Gaming Ideas -- The Primacy of the Team Production Activities -- The Absence of Big Name Character -- Managing Post-Heroic Creative Work: Practical Implications -- Passionate Work and Innovation-Led Growth -- Contributions to Management Studies and Organization Theory -- Implications for Industry Policy -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Index Video games industry Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Styhre, Alexander Indie Video Game Development Work Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2020 9783030455446 |
| spellingShingle | Styhre, Alexander Indie Video Game Development Work Innovation in the Creative Economy Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Ethnographer's Dilemma: To Understand a World That Is Not Your Own While Avoiding to Misrepresenting It -- Introduction: Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Anthropologist's Predicament -- The Ethnographer's Assignment: To Unveil Everyday Practices and Their Meaning -- The Study: Methodological Issues -- Design of the Study -- The Social Science Ethnography Literature -- Technology-Based Ethnographies -- The Mode of Production: Indie Game Development and the Video Game Industry -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Connecting the Ethnographic Data to Theoretical Frameworks -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 2: Governing Innovation-Led Economies: The Role of Business Creation and Creativity -- Introduction: Problem, Purpose, and Research Question -- Purpose and Research Question -- Innovation-Led Growth in a Finance-Led Economy -- The State of Venturing and Entrepreneurialism -- The Supply of Venture Capital -- The Creation and Operation of Private Venture Capital Markets -- Private Venture Capital Investment Performance -- Why Venture Capital Investors Commit Their Capital to High-Risk Ventures -- How Venture Capital Investors Commit Their Capital to High-Risk Ventures -- Intuition-Based Venture Capital Investment Decisions -- The Return on Equity of Venture Capital Investment: Measuring Performance -- Other Ways of Financing Development Work: On the IPO Trail -- State-Funding Redux -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Passionate Worker and Deeply Meaningful Work -- Introduction -- Passion and Meaning in Day-to-Day Work -- Affective Labour -- The Passion of Everyday Work -- The Authenticity Criterion in Creative Work -- Studies of Passionate Work -- On Gaming: A Sense of Being Alive The Sacred and the Profane and the Rules of Conduct -- Play Versus Games -- A Taxonomy of Game -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Part II: The Empirical Material -- Chapter 4: Who Is an Indie Developer? Sorting Out the Categories -- Introduction -- Classification as Social Practice -- To Classify the Indie Developer and the Indie Video Game -- Indie as Attitude and Identity -- Industry Structure Conditions -- Indie and Labour Market Structure -- The Output: Indie Games -- Classification Systems and the Making of a Social Order -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Social Norms in the Developer Community: The Ambiguity of Money-Making -- Introduction -- The Ambiguous Nature of Money in Entrepreneurial Work -- Money and Their Social Significance and Meaning -- On Money and Money-Making in Indie Video Game Development -- The Ambiguous Nature of Money-Making -- Passionate Game Development -- In Defence of the Business Side of Video Game Development -- The Fickle and Ambiguous Nature of Money and Money-Making -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: In the Venture Capital Market: Raising Funds and Dealing with Investors and Financiers -- Introduction -- Investing and Raising Venture Capital in Indie Video Game Development -- Digital Distribution on a Global Market: Coping with Market Risks -- User Reviews, Clicks, and Media Attention -- Raising Funds and Dealing with Investors and Financiers -- A Word from the Investors -- Alternative Sources of Funding: Crowdfunding -- Culture Grants and Other Forms of State Funding -- Indirect Support of Indie Developers: The Role of Incubators in Making Indie Studios Business-Like -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Expanding the Video Game Concept: The Perceptual and Epistemological Bases of the Digital Objects -- Introduction The Modernist Theory of Perception: Seeing as Trained Capacity -- Modern Visual Media -- Visual Perception and Imaginative Capacity -- Video Games and the Technology of the Fantastic -- Developing the Video Game Technology: Novel Applications and New Thinking -- The Skills Needed to Conceive of New Game Applications and genres -- New Thinking and New Ideas as the Driver of Innovation -- Gamification and Its Uses -- Business Concerns and Creative Inspiration in Video Game Development -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Passionate Production in the Shadow of the Market: The Prospects of Innovation-Led Growth -- Introduction -- A Post-Heroic Theory of Creativity -- The Post-Heroic View of Creativity in Video Game Development -- The Limited Value of Gaming Ideas -- The Primacy of the Team Production Activities -- The Absence of Big Name Character -- Managing Post-Heroic Creative Work: Practical Implications -- Passionate Work and Innovation-Led Growth -- Contributions to Management Studies and Organization Theory -- Implications for Industry Policy -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Index Video games industry |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Indie Video Game Development Work Innovation in the Creative Economy |
| title_short | Indie Video Game Development Work |
| title_sort | indie video game development work innovation in the creative economy |
| title_sub | Innovation in the Creative Economy |
| topic | Video games industry |
| topic_facet | Video games industry |
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