Nick Dyer-Witheford

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Nick Dyer-Witheford is an author, and associate professor at the University of Western Ontario in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. [1] His area of study primarily focuses on the rise of technology and the internet, as well as their continuous impact on modern society. He has written six books, along with seventeen other publications.

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Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games

“Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games,” is Dyer-Witheford's third book, published in 2009 and cowritten with Greg de Peuter. In it they talk about how the history of video games has shown how capitalism has shaped the means of how the video game industry works. It serves as an analytical approach to areas such as control, industry and expenditure over the short life of video games. [7] Dyer-Witheford and Peuter use a marxian lens to examine the concept of games as a contributor to a substantial part of financial systems. [19]

Critical reception

The book received mixed reviews from its readers. Dr.Joseph Rebello, assistant professor of economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said "Reactions, both positive and negative, to this work have been strong. This is not the place to rehash existing debates, but a reader uncomfortable with the very concepts of empire and multitude will probably not be entirely convinced by the book's arguments concerning imperial and multitudinous games. That being said, the book offers plenty of insight to anyone interested in the political economy of video games (or that of popular media). [19] Media lawyer Alex Wade, deemed it "Readable and accessible" and said "its critical approach was a vital counterpoint to the sclerotic ludology/narratology debate that dominated games studies discourse in the early years of the 21st century. [20]

Accolades

Nick Dyer-Witheford won the Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize in 2016 by the Canadian Communication Association. He was given the award for his book, Cyber Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex. The prize is named after Professor Gertrude J. Robinson for all she had done for the field of communications across the globe. [21]

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References

  1. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick; Peuter, Greig De (2009). Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN   9780816666102.
  2. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick; Peuter, Greig de (2010-07-01). "Games of Multitude". Fibreculture Journal (16). ISSN   1449-1443.
  3. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick; Peuter, Greig de (2005-01-01). "A Playful Multitude? Mobilising and Counter-Mobilising Immaterial Game Labour". Fibreculture Journal (5). ISSN   1449-1443.
  4. ↑ Compton, James; Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2014-11-01). "Prolegomenon to a theory of slump media". Media, Culture & Society. 36 (8): 1196–1206. doi:10.1177/0163443714544867. ISSN   0163-4437. S2CID   144562138.
  5. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick. "Nick Dyer-Witheford: Net, square, everywhere? / Radical Philosophy". Radical Philosophy. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  6. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2001). "Nintendo Capitalism: Enclosures and Insurgencies, Virtual and Terrestrial". Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 22 (4): 965–996. doi:10.1080/02255189.2001.9669951. ISSN   0225-5189. S2CID   154508894.
  7. 1 2 Reyes, Ian (2017). "Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter, Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games (2009)". Markets, Globalization & Development Review. 2 (1). doi: 10.23860/mgdr-2017-02-01-08 . ISSN   2473-4055.
  8. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2007). "Reprogramming Japan: The High Tech Crisis Under Communitarian Capitalism". Perspectives on Politics. 5 (3): 649. doi:10.1017/S1537592707071927. ISSN   1537-5927. S2CID   145415034.
  9. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick; De Peuter, Greig S. (2006-10-23). ""EA Spouse" and the Crisis of Video Game Labour: Enjoyment, Exclusion, Exploitation, and Exodus". Canadian Journal of Communication. 31 (3). doi:10.22230/cjc.2006v31n3a1771. ISSN   1499-6642.
  10. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick; Sharman, Zena (2005-04-24). "The Political Economy of Canada's Video and Computer Game Industry". Canadian Journal of Communication. 30 (2). doi: 10.22230/cjc.2005v30n2a1575 . ISSN   1499-6642.
  11. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2001). "The New Combinations: Revolt of the Global Value-Subjects". CR: The New Centennial Review. 1 (3): 155–200. doi:10.1353/ncr.2003.0063. ISSN   1539-6630. S2CID   144401540.
  12. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2001). "Empire, Immaterial Labor, the New Combinations, and the Global Worker". Rethinking Marxism. 13 (3–4): 70–80. doi:10.1080/089356901101242009. ISSN   0893-5696. S2CID   143888538.
  13. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick (1999). "The work in digital play: Video gaming's transnational and gendered division of labour". Journal of International Communication. 6 (1): 69–93. doi:10.1080/13216597.1999.9751883. ISSN   1321-6597.
  14. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2019). "COGNITIVE CAPITALISM AND THE CONTESTED CAMPUS". Engineering Culture: 71–93.
  15. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2007), "Hegemony or Multitude? Two Versions of Radical Democracy for the Net", Radical Democracy and the Internet, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 191–206, doi:10.1057/9780230592469_11, ISBN   978-1-349-28315-6
  16. ↑ Fuchs, Christian; Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2013-08-01). "Karl Marx @ Internet Studies". New Media & Society. 15 (5): 782–796. doi:10.1177/1461444812462854. ISSN   1461-4448. S2CID   40140121.
  17. ↑ Coleman, Sarah; Dyer-Witheford, Nick (2007). "Playing on the digital commons: collectivities, capital and contestation in videogame culture". Media, Culture & Society. 29 (6): 934–953. doi:10.1177/0163443707081700. ISSN   0163-4437. S2CID   154832086.
  18. ↑ Dyer-Witheford, Nick (January 2008). "Species-beings: For Biocommunism". Species-beings: For Biocommunism. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.458.8546 .
  19. 1 2 Rebello, Joseph (2014-04-03). "Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games, by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009". Rethinking Marxism. 26 (2): 291–294. doi:10.1080/08935696.2014.885219. ISSN   0893-5696. S2CID   143506069.
  20. ↑ Wade, Alex (2010). "Book Review: Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Videogames". The Sociological Review. 58 (4): 716–718. doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01955.x. ISSN   0038-0261. S2CID   150206898.
  21. ↑ "Cyber-Proletariat wins book prize – Between the Lines". btlbooks.com. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
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