Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Video Game Industry, Tantalite, High Tech
13 Aug 2016
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Dyer-witheford & de peuter, ea spouse and the crisis of video game labour". Ea spouse = blogger that has a significant other working in the video game industry. There is an epidemic of overwork in the video game industry. Enjoyment the pleasures that workers find at their jobs. Exodus attempts to escape this work culture. Jobs for top video game companies require 7-day, 85-hour work weeks. No overtime pay or time-off is common. Ea has a put up or shut up policy. The post inspired a massive amount of responses. It was apparent that what the ea spouse was experiencing was not isolated. Excessive hours required from employees results in overwork. The video game industry largely relies on the outsourcing of labour to free-enterprise zones such as those in central and south america, eastern europe, se asia, and china. Linked to gaming is the mining of columbine tantalite mineral used in high-tech commodities.
