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.

这篇科学与社会论文改进赠款考察了各种力量和活动，即法律、技术、合作和工作场所文化，这些力量和活动塑造了游戏机视频游戏的发展，并使其在当今全球化的经济中站稳脚跟。这项研究使用美国和印度的视频游戏开发商和视频游戏开发作为了解这些复杂问题的窗口。游戏公司的工作方式，无论是字面上的还是形象的，组织工作的方式，以及周围的市场力量，都提供了一个重新思考新经济理念的机会。NSF基金通过参与者观察支持数据收集，并辅之以访谈、内部文档、实践和方案。第二个数据集基于专利文件和法律案例，这将有助于进一步阐明技术实践和那些发展，这些做法和发展具有足够的价值或被认为是足以申请专利的独特之处。最终的数据来源是新闻稿和SEC备案文件，它们提供了有关公司的公司行动和公布的事件类型的信息。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一个最成熟的游戏行业和另一个新兴的游戏行业之间展开。这项研究将检验的假设是：新经济中存在区别于后工业工作的工作要素，游戏已成为一个有用的区别核心类别。这项研究的智力价值在于游戏概念在新经济的三个不同层面上的贡献，即分析、工作、工作组织以及市场和文化动态。这项研究的广泛影响来自于政策制定者对工作外包、工人移民、专利法、商业监管和媒体评级系统监管等问题的洞察力。