Selling games by the kilo : using oral history to reconstruct informal economies of computer game distribution in the post-communist environment
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Selling games by the kilo : using oral history to reconstruct informal economies of computer game distribution in the post-communist environment
Original language description
Building on a larger research of the early gaming cultures in the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia, this paper describes the alternative distribution channels of computer game software in the post-communist environment and their relationship to gamer communities. Before 1990, there was virtually no computer software or hardware market in the former Czechoslovakia. Copyright of digital works was rarely enforced or debated. Instead, informal distribution structures were forming, many of which survived well into the late 1990's. The ?shadow economy? worked on a number of levels.On top of that, there was a huge number of ?mail order pirates?, predominantly young gamers, who published their contact info in ad papers and copied games for money. Using archival material and oral history interviews, I will (1) describe the way informal distribution worked socially and economically, and (2) analyze the way distribution influenced the gaming culture in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
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Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2010
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Game\Play\Society : contributions to contemporary computer game studies
ISBN
978-3-86736-240-5
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
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Number of pages of the book
294
Publisher name
Kopaed
Place of publication
München
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