Pagando para vencer, parte 2: serialização, power creep e capitalismo tardio em Hearthstone

Q4 Social Sciences

Comunicacao Midia e Consumo Pub Date : 2019-12-10 DOI:10.18568/cmc.v16i47.1894

Thiago Falcão, D. Marques

引用次数: 4

Abstract

This paper discusses power creep in the digital game card Hearthstone (Blizzard, 2012), questioning it from the perspectives of mediatization, serialization and late capitalism. The goal is to politicize the issue by pointing to the overlapping of contemporary cultural industry with game’s epistemological and ontological perspectives. We undertake the effort to review some theories of mediatization, observing the particularities of serialization in games. To achieve the main goal, we set out for an exploratory empirical analysis of professional players discourse on YouTube, revealing traces that help us locate the agency of late capitalism and serialization in Hearthstone’s power creep. Finally, we reinforce the need to scrutinize the contemporary entertainment industry, as well as the need to (re) think understandings about digital games and their cultures.

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付费取胜，第二部分:炉石传说中的连载、权力蠕变和后期资本主义

本文讨论了数字游戏卡牌《炉石传说》(Blizzard, 2012)中的权力蔓延，并从媒介化、连载和晚期资本主义的角度对其进行了质疑。目标是通过指出当代文化产业与游戏的认识论和本体论观点的重叠，将问题政治化。我们将努力回顾一些媒介化的理论，观察游戏中连载的特殊性。为了实现主要目标，我们开始对YouTube上的职业玩家话语进行探索性实证分析，揭示有助于我们定位《炉石传说》权力蔓延中晚期资本主义和系列化机制的痕迹。最后，我们强调审视当代娱乐产业的必要性，以及重新思考对数字游戏及其文化的理解的必要性。

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Comunicacao Midia e Consumo Social Sciences-Communication

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0.20

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审稿时长

30 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo – Communication, Media and Consumption – is published in printed and digital versions by the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Práticas de Consumo da ESPM-SP – Postgraduate Programme in Communication and Consumption Practices of ESPM-SP – Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing – Superior School of Propaganda and Marketing and it is evaluated as Qualis A2; its editorial line is to approach relevant topics of the field of Communication, understood here as a complex socio-cultural process and practice. The articles must be well-founded and mobilise different authors of a given theoretical tendency so that they develop a critical reflection about the approached thematic topics. In the case of empirical articles, besides the contextualisation and the descriptive stage of the material, we privilege articles which present a theoretico-interpretative of the aspects that are observed in the corpus.