[csaa-forum] Dr Alison Harvey 'Paying to be #Winning?' talk, Tues 20 Feb, 3:30pm

[TANIA LEWIS]

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Tania



Invite - Dr Alison Harvey 'Paying to be #Winning?' lecture, Tues 20 Feb,
3:30 -5pm
*Paying to be #Winning?* What the Kardashians can teach us about the future
of games
Dr Alison Harvey, University of Leicester



*A talk by Dr Alison Harvey, University of Leicester*

The world of digital games has been marked by growing controversy over the
increasing monetization of game formats, particularly ‘loot boxes’.  The
Belgian Gaming Commission, for instance, has sought to investigate whether
games like Battlefront II should be regulated as a form of gambling. In
this talk, Dr Alison Harvey of the University of Leicester historicizes
this controversy and challenges the dominant discourses related to value
and legitimacy in gaming with a focus on the highly acclaimed and
simultaneously vilified mobile celebrity game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
(KK:H).

Through its form and functioning, this game reveals the intensities of
women’s work in low status activities, across play and celebrity culture,
and through this, challenges their devaluation. It is via this simulation
of invisible labour that KK:H represents an exemplar of what new ludic
economies and features such as ‘pay to win’ strategies in games might
suggest about the future of digital play.

Tuesday 20 February 2018
3:30 -5pm
RMIT University
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