Dissertation Improvement Grant: Videogaming, Work, and the Play of the New Economy

论文改进补助金：电子游戏、工作和新经济的发挥

• 批准号: 0620903
• 负责人: Kim Fortun
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0620903&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Videogaming; Work

This Science and Society Dissertation Improvement Grant examines the diverse forces and activities, namely, laws, technologies, collaboration, and workplace cultures, that shape console video game development, and make it tenable in today's globalized economy. This study uses video game developers and video game development in the United States and India as a window into understanding these complex issues. The ways in which game companies work both literally and figuratively, organize work, and the market forces surrounding them offers an opportunity to rethink ideas about the new economy. NSF funding supports data collection through participant observation, supplemented by interviews, internal documentation, practices, and protocols. The second data set is based on patent documents and legal cases, which will serve to further illuminate the technological practices and those developments, which are valued or perceived unique enough to pursue a patent. The final data sources are press releases and SEC filings, which offer information about the corporate actions of companies and the kinds of events that are publicized. Cross cultural analysis between the United States and India provides an opportunity to see these forces and activities unfolding between one of the most well established game industries, and another newly emerging. The hypothesis that will be tested by this research is: the idea that there are distinguishing elements of work in the new economy, from post-industrial work, and that play has emerged as a useful distinguishing core category. The intellectual merit of this research is the contribution of the notion of play at three differing levels of analysis, work, work organization, and market and cultural dynamics of the new economy. The broad impact of this research stems from insights for policy makers regarding issues of work outsourcing, immigration of workers, patent law, business regulation, and the regulation of media ratings systems.

这项科学与社会论文改进赠款拨款研究了多样化的力量和活动，即法律，技术，协作和工作场所文化，这些文化形成了游戏机视频游戏的开发，并在当今的全球化经济中可以定位。这项研究使用了美国和印度的视频游戏开发人员和视频游戏开发，以了解这些复杂问题。游戏公司在字面上和形象上的工作方式，组织工作以及周围的市场力量提供了一个机会，可以重新考虑有关新经济的想法。 NSF资金通过参与者观察支持数据收集，并补充了访谈，内部文档，实践和协议。第二个数据集基于专利文件和法律案件，这些文件将进一步阐明技术实践和这些发展，这些发展是被重视或被认为是独特的，以寻求专利。最终数据源是新闻稿和SEC申请，这些文件提供了有关公司行动以及所宣传的各种事件的信息。美国和印度之间的跨文化分析提供了一个机会，可以看到这些力量和活动在最成熟的游戏行业之一和另一个新出现之间展开的机会。这项研究将检验的假设是：新经济中有区别作品的想法，与后工业化的工作以及该游戏已成为有用的区别核心类别。这项研究的智力优点是在三个不同级别的分析，工作，工作组织以及新经济的市场和文化动态的三个不同水平上的游戏概念的贡献。这项研究的广泛影响源于对政策制定者对工作外包问题，工人移民，专利法，商业监管以及媒体评级系统监管的见解。