{"product_id":"digital-culture-society-dcs-vol-5-issue-2-2019-laborious-play-and-playful-work-i-9783837644791","title":"Digital Culture \u0026 Society (Dcs) Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2019): Laborious Play and Playful Work I","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pablo Abend\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Noke\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Noke\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis double issue of \u003ci\u003eDigital Culture \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the complex thematic field of the dialectics of play and labour. It takes a closer look at the problem of play and work from two overlapping, albeit not mutually exclusive, perspectives: laborious play and playful work. The term laborious play points to practices and processes that turn playful activities into hard work. Laborious play happens whenever playfulness turns into work, and may be observed in such activities such as e-sports, excessive play, \"goldfarming\", and Twitch gameplay broadcasting, amongst many others. A complementary phenomenon to that of laborious play is the practice and concept of playful work. The promises of a joyful and rewarding working experience have been promoted as \"gamification\" while critical voices denounce such attempts as ideology, exploitation or simply \"bullshit\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Noke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083287060631,"sku":"9783837644791","price":4051.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783837644791.webp?v=1767898214","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/digital-culture-society-dcs-vol-5-issue-2-2019-laborious-play-and-playful-work-i-9783837644791","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}