Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
New Books in Public Policy
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The Concept of Slumming in Video Games
The idea of connecting slumming to different forms of media, including video games, isn't particularly new. What really hadn't happened yet was a real serious consideration of what slumming might look like in video games and how the concept could be used as a framework for understanding video games. I mentioned Skyrim a little while ago. One of the interesting things about that game is that it gives you this experience of thinking you're in a slum. But when you start to engage with the economic systems in the game, one of the things you find is that actually, you know, these people have the same resources as everybody else. And so that kind of that moment or that kind of
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