The new gatekeepers: The occupational ideology of game journalism

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nieborg, David B ^a   Sihvonen, Tanja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Pinni A   (Finland)

Author keywords

Game capital; Game industry; Game journalism; Political economy

Indexed keywords

BALANCING ACTS; BRAND MANAGERS; CONTEXTUALIZE; GAME CAPITAL; GAME INDUSTRY; GAME JOURNALISM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SOURCE MATERIAL;

INDUSTRY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84873351955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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