Topic
Gaming Economy
3 items.
25 Aug 2010
Blog post
Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of SurvivalThis blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional …
22 Jul 2010
Blog post
The Attention Economy - A Brief IntroductionThis post examines attention economy as a brief prelude to a paper and monograph to be published on it. It examines the current theses on attention economy and a few approaches to reading attention economy in gaming besides foregrounding …
20 Jan 2010
Blog post
Gaming and Gold - An IntroductionArun Menon in this first entry, provides a brief description of the area of study and the questions that need to be engaged with in the course of this study.