SUPR
Paid to Play
Dnr:

sens2025562

Type:

NAISS SENS

Principal Investigator:

Magnus Andersen

Affiliation:

Uppsala universitet

Start Date:

2025-05-01

End Date:

2026-05-01

Primary Classification:

50701: Human Geography

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Allocation

Abstract

This project explores a new digital platform-mediated play-to-earn economy in the gaming industry. Based on interviews and digital ethnography, the project will analyse the labour process of game service work and provide new knowledge about how gig work transforms online video games made for leisure into sites of labour embedded in diverse economic and spatial contexts.