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The Virtual Hand: Exploring the Societal Effects of Video Game Industry Business Models

Cruea, Mark Douglas
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1320430304

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Media and Communication.
The purpose of this study was threefold. The first goal was to investigate the evolution of business models within the video game industry with a specific focus on the console segment within the United States and including Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony as the three largest console manufacturers. The second goal was to examine the connections between these business models and practices of planned obsolescence. The third goal was to determine the connections between the business models in use and any associated externalities. Externalities of particular interest included effects related to violence, gender, race, military connections, and the environment. Political economy served as both theory and method. Results showed that past business models have heavily relied on a cycle of production and consumption that contributes to a culture of overconsumption and regularly produces and reproduces both positive and negative externalities that are not accounted for as a cost of doing business despite the effects borne by society.
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Radhika Gajjala, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sung-Yeon Park, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Savilla Banister, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
269 p.
Communication; Mass Media
video games; political economy; externalities; planned obsolescence; overconsumption; race; gender; violence; environment; military; Microsoft; Sony; Nintendo; business models

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  • Cruea, M. D. (2011). The Virtual Hand: Exploring the Societal Effects of Video Game Industry Business Models [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1320430304

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cruea, Mark. The Virtual Hand: Exploring the Societal Effects of Video Game Industry Business Models. 2011. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1320430304.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cruea, Mark. "The Virtual Hand: Exploring the Societal Effects of Video Game Industry Business Models." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1320430304

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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