Crafting content: the discovery of Minecraft's invisible digital economy

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Crafting content: the discovery of Minecraft's invisible digital economy

This thesis presents an ethnographic study that aims at explicating the work of creating content in Minecraft. The existing literature paves the way in understanding Minecraft’s community by providing fragments of what players do. However, the game is studied mainly from a ludic perspective or is tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Koutsouras, Panagiotis
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	minecraft digital economy computer games video games
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51744/

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