Crushing Candy: The Free-to-Play Game in Its Connective Commodity Form

The goal of this article is to add a complementary perspective to the study of social network sites by surveying how the political economy of social media platforms relates to the structure of free-to-play games in their commodity form. Drawing on the theory of multisided markets and critical politi...

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Main Author: David B. Nieborg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-12-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115621932