Labor and Exploitation in MMOGs

Research Abstract:

Using League of Legends (LoL) as an example, this study uses political economic analysis and textual analysis and finds that MMOGs commodify and sell in-game player interactions with other players, environments, and nonplayer characters. This labor is exploited by an MMOG in three stages: labor process, remuneration settlement, and consumption.

Labor and Exploitation in MMOGs： How Players’ Labor is Exploited in League of Legends

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Researcher Biography

Nansong Zhou is a graduate student in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication (2021.9-2023.5).

Research interests: digital games, digital labor, platform and algorithm, and computing history.

Email: nz2119@nyu.edu