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Gold farming

Abstract:: ‘Gold farmers’ are companies and workers who earn income by harvesting virtual currencies and items in online video games and selling them on to other players for real money. The industry emerged in the massively-multiplayer online role-playing games of late 1990s and 2000s and persists in different forms today. Scholars have examined the sociology of the consumer demand that drives the industry, the structure and geography of its clandestine value chains, its implications to economic development, and its relationship with video game business and the ethics of play.

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Lehdonvirta, V. (2019). Gold farming. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2nd ed.). Wiley.

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Lehdonvirta, V. “Gold Farming.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G Ritzer, 2nd ed., Wiley, 2019.

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Lehdonvirta, V. 2019. “Gold Farming.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G Ritzer, 2nd ed. Wiley.
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Publisher copy:: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos1263

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Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: Oxford Internet Institute
Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0000-0002-6509-1703

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Role:: Editor

Publisher:: Wiley
Host title:: Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
Publication date:: 2019-11-19
Edition:: 2nd
DOI:: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos1263
EISBN:: 9781405165518
ISBN:: 9781405124331

Language:: English
Keywords:: video games

communication and media studies

sociology of development

labor
Subtype:: Chapter
Pubs id:: pubs:942660
UUID:: uuid:106e054e-022d-4cca-baed-86f53aa3e724
Local pid:: pubs:942660
Source identifiers:: 942660
Deposit date:: 2018-11-15

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Copyright holder:: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Copyright date:: 2019
Rights statement:: Copyright © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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