You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All by Adrian Hon

You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

Adrian Hon

336 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction psychology technology video games informative medium-paced
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How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation--and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. U...

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