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Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games
There is an emerging body of games that simulate the labor of drink making and serving at the forefront of play through the role of a bartender or artisanal mixologist. Both are working class but the creative variance between them challenges how economic precarity is understood. The authors ask how...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10251459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37305847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15554120221119962 |
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description | There is an emerging body of games that simulate the labor of drink making and serving at the forefront of play through the role of a bartender or artisanal mixologist. Both are working class but the creative variance between them challenges how economic precarity is understood. The authors ask how this translates to video games when these positions are foregrounded. How do play, poverty, and precarity interconnect in drink making and serving games? Through the qualitative analysis of four games that put the player in the position of bartender or mixologist, this paper shows how creative labor and precarity are illuminated or obfuscated through mechanics and narrative. In doing so, it argues how games, as one form of media, obscure or make visible labor and precarity to players and simultaneously reinforce the romanticization of often exploited creative labor. These findings prompt further questions and research directions on representations of working-class labor. |
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spelling | pubmed-102514592023-06-10 Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games DeJong, Scott Blamey, Courtney Games Cult Articles There is an emerging body of games that simulate the labor of drink making and serving at the forefront of play through the role of a bartender or artisanal mixologist. Both are working class but the creative variance between them challenges how economic precarity is understood. The authors ask how this translates to video games when these positions are foregrounded. How do play, poverty, and precarity interconnect in drink making and serving games? Through the qualitative analysis of four games that put the player in the position of bartender or mixologist, this paper shows how creative labor and precarity are illuminated or obfuscated through mechanics and narrative. In doing so, it argues how games, as one form of media, obscure or make visible labor and precarity to players and simultaneously reinforce the romanticization of often exploited creative labor. These findings prompt further questions and research directions on representations of working-class labor. SAGE Publications 2022-08-10 2023-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10251459/ /pubmed/37305847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15554120221119962 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles DeJong, Scott Blamey, Courtney Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games |
title | Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games |
title_full | Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games |
title_fullStr | Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games |
title_full_unstemmed | Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games |
title_short | Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games |
title_sort | top shelf drinks, bottom line play: examining representations of class in bartending and mixology games |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10251459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37305847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15554120221119962 |
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