Apportioned commodity fetishism and the transformative power of game studies

Ken S. McAllister; Judd Ethan Ruggill; Tobias Conradi; Steven Conway; Jennifer de Winter; Chris Hanson; Carly A. Kocurek; Kevin A. Moberly; Randy Nichols; Rolf F. Nohr

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-0261-6.ch005

Apportioned commodity fetishism and the transformative power of game studies

Ken S. McAllister, Judd Ethan Ruggill, Tobias Conradi, Steven Conway, Jennifer de Winter, Chris Hanson, Carly A. Kocurek, Kevin A. Moberly, Randy Nichols, Rolf F. Nohr

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This chapter explores the ways in which the field of Game Studies helps shape popular understandingsof player, play, and game, and specifically how the field alters the conceptual, linguistic, and discursiveapparatuses that gamers use to contextualize, describe, and make sense of their experiences. The chapterdeploys the concept of apportioned commodity fetishism to analyze the phenomena of discourse aspractice, persona, the vagaries of game design, recursion, lexical formation, institutionalization, systemsof self-effectiveness, theory as anti-theory, and commodification.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	95-122
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9781522502623
ISBN (Print)	1522502610, 9781522502616
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0261-6.ch005
State	Published - Jun 20 2016

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McAllister, K. S., Ruggill, J. E., Conradi, T., Conway, S., de Winter, J., Hanson, C., Kocurek, C. A., Moberly, K. A., Nichols, R., & Nohr, R. F. (2016). Apportioned commodity fetishism and the transformative power of game studies. In Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives (pp. 95-122). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0261-6.ch005

McAllister, KS , Ruggill, JE, Conradi, T, Conway, S, de Winter, J, Hanson, C, Kocurek, CA, Moberly, KA, Nichols, R & Nohr, RF 2016, Apportioned commodity fetishism and the transformative power of game studies. in Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives. IGI Global, pp. 95-122. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0261-6.ch005

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