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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Selling games by the kilo : using oral history to reconstruct informal economies of computer game distribution in the post-communist environment

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Selling games by the kilo : using oral history to reconstruct informal economies of computer game distribution in the post-communist environment

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2010

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Game\Play\Society : contributions to contemporary computer game studies

ISBN

978-3-86736-240-5

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

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Počet stran knihy

294

Název nakladatele

Kopaed

Místo vydání

München

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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