America's digital army : games at work and war /

Allen, Robertson,

America's digital army : games at work and war / Robertson Allen. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations - Anthropology of contemporary North America .

Includes bibliographies and index.

America's digital army -- The art of persuasion and the science of manpower -- The artifice of the virtual and the real -- The full-spectrum soft sell of the army experience -- Complicating the military entertainment complex -- The labor of virtual soldiers.

"An ethnographic study based on scholar Robertson Allen's years of behind-the-scenes ethnographic fieldwork within the work environments of the video game developers, military strategists, enlisted soldiers, and defense contractors who produced the official U.S. Army video game, "America's Army.""--



9781496200631


War video games--United States.
War video games--Social aspects--United States.


Electronic Books.

U310 / .A447 2017