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Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Volume 3, Number 3 (2018) Virtual Platforms: Spaces of Control and Contestation

Editorial

[Cntrl] + [Alt] + [Esc] ? Virtual Platforms as Spaces of Control and Contestation
Aras Ozgun

Articles

The Unfree Space of Play: Emergence and Control in the Videogame and the Platform
Logan Brown

Convergence Markets: Virtual [Corpo]reality
Tracy Harwood, Tony Garry, and Russell Belk

Virtual Avatars: Trans Experiences of Ideal Selves Through Gaming
Kai Baldwin

Gamer Resistance to Marketization of Play
Jacob C. Almaguer

Dialogue

A commentary on Narrative Platforms, Cinematic Universes, and Consumers Formerly Known as the Audience
Andreas Treske and Aras Ozgun

Book Reviews

Banerjee, Dholakia and Dholakia, M-Powering Marketing in a Mobile World (2017)
Zoila C. Zambrano

Van Dijk, Poell, and de Wall, The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World (2018)
Batuhan Keskin

Media Review

Searching: On the Cultural and Sociopolitical Implication of Social Media
Siamak Javadi

Special Issue Editor

Aras Ozgun
Izmir University of Economics, Turkey

MGDR Founding Editors

Nikhilesh Dholakia
University of Rhode Island, USA: Deniz Atik
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA