Global game industries and cultural policy. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anthony Fung.
• Editors: Fung, Anthony Y. H
• Contents: Introduction (Anthony Fung).-Session I.Creative Industries and Cultural Policy.-Chapter 1. Creative industry and Cultural Policy in Asia reconsidered (Anthony Fung).-Chapter 2.Creative industries and Cool Japan (Koichi Iwabuchi).-Chapter 3.Before the gold rush: Culture without industry in China (Michael Keane).-Session II.Regional Game Industries.-Chapter 4.Globalizing Chinese Online Game Industry: From Incubation, Hybridization to Structural Expansion in the Past Two Decades (Carlos K. F. Cheung and Anthony Fung).- Chapter 5.The Role of Dual Institutional- And Technological Entrepreneurship in The Formation of the Japanese Social Game Industry (Mirko Ernkvist).- Chapter 6.Revisiting Creative Industry Models for Game Industry Development in Southeast Asia (Pei-chi Chung).-Chapter 7.The Globally Integrated Network of South Korean Online Game Industry: Introduction (Pei-chi Chung).-Chapter 8.Media Globalization in Cultural Industries on 21st Century: A Case Study of Taiwan's Online Gaming Industry (Lai Chi Chen).- Chapter 9.A Patchwork of Potential: A Survey of the European Game Industry (David Nieborg and Jeroen de Kloet).-Chapter 10.Contested Reception of the Free-To-Play Business Model in the North American Video Game Market (Matthew M. Chew).-Session III.Mobile Play.-Chapter 11.Beyond the Game of Cat and Mouse: Challenges of Discoverability and PiracyIn Mobile Gaming Market (Elaine Jing Zhao).-Chapter 12.The Place of the Mobile Play: Camera Phone Play and Gamified Locative Media (Larissa Hjorth).- Session IV.Online Games.-Chapter 13.Online Game Worlds as a Virtual Co-presence across National Borders (Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun).-Chapter 14.The Decline of MMOs (Richard A. Bartle).-Chapter 15.Governance Challenges in the Global Games Industry (Darryl Woodford).- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 794.8; Electronic games; Electronic games -- Social aspects; Electronic games industry; Cultural policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; Cultural policy; Electronic games; Electronic games industry; Social Science -- General; Mathematics -- Game Theory; Business & Economics -- Industries -- General; Social Science -- Children's Studies; Cultural studies; Game theory; Industry & industrial studies; Game theory; Industries; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; Politics & government; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319407609; 3319407600
• Related ISBNs: 9783319407593
• Notes: Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 21, 2017).
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