The economy of time, the rationalisation of resources: Discipline, desire and deferred value in the playing of Gacha games

• 主要作者: WOODS, Orlando
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• 主題: gacha games; rationalisation; gambling; grinding; economy of time; Sociology
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3561; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4819/viewcontent/woods_2022_the_economy_of_time_the_rationalisation_of_resources_discipline_desire_and_deferred_value_in_the_playing_of.pdf

This paper offers a counterpoint to existing research that explores the associations between gacha games and gambling. Whilst existing research tends to advance a view that playing these games is equivalent to gambling, I contend that such assertions rest on analyses that focus almost exclusively on...