You'Ve Been Played

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20.00
book_author_name: 
Adrian Hon
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Swift Press
published_date: 
29/09/2022
isbn: 
9781800751972
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Books > Politics, Society & Education > Society & culture > Cultural studies > Popular culture
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Adrian Hon|Hardback|Swift Press|29/09/2022
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9781800751972
Book Description: 
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation - and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In You've Been Played, game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion. These are games that we often have no choice but to play, where losing has heavy penalties. You've Been Played is a scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy.

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