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.