Playbour in the Digital Games:A Case Study of Fantasy Westward Journey

Abstract

The problem of playbour in digital games has always been a key research field of the political economy of communication. The following issues are widely disputed: the productivity of playbour, the exploitation and monitoring of playbour, and the initiative of palybour. This article expolres the playbour problem in the game world by conducting a digital ethnographic investigation of the online game “ Fantasy Westward Journey”.