Normalizing player surveillance through video game infographics

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10454608" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10454608 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=EjOKPm4e6F" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=EjOKPm4e6F</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448221097889" target="_blank" >10.1177/14614448221097889</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Normalizing player surveillance through video game infographics

Original language description

As video game production is becoming increasingly data-driven, player surveillance shapes the everyday realities of users and developers. Remote online tracking and the resulting optimization and governance of in-game activity subscribe to the Big Data methodology as a way of accounting for entire player populations. By design, player surveillance serves the interests of developers and publishers, who have exclusive access to this proprietary data. Yet, discursively, these parties attempt to present surveillance as a mutually beneficial endeavor aimed at improving video games. A part of this strategy is the video game industry&apos;s selective information disclosure, which I explore empirically on the example of telemetry infographics. Based on a thematic analysis of 200 infographics from 127 games, I show how publicly disseminated infographics contribute to the normalization of player surveillance by presenting it as a source of harmless trivia to be collected and shared by fans and the specialized press.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

New Media and Society

ISSN

1461-4448

e-ISSN

1461-7315

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

3127-3145

UT code for WoS article

000811038000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85131736046