{"id":1037,"date":"2022-03-13T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2025-01-16T21:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:05:02","slug":"book-endorsement-adam-crowleys-representations-of-poverty-in-videogames-palgrave-macmillan-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/book-endorsement-adam-crowleys-representations-of-poverty-in-videogames-palgrave-macmillan-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Endorsement: Adam Crowley&#8217;s Representations of Poverty in Videogames, Palgrave Macmillan (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/978-3-031-00144-4.jpeg?resize=729%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1038\" style=\"width:314px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/978-3-031-00144-4.jpeg?resize=729%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 729w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/978-3-031-00144-4.jpeg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/978-3-031-00144-4.jpeg?resize=768%2C1079&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/978-3-031-00144-4.jpeg?w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Mike Piero provided the following endorsement of Dr. Adam Crowley&#8217;s latest book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-00144-4\">Representations of Poverty in Videogames<\/a><\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>Representations of Poverty in Videogames <\/em>is a must-read book for any scholar interested in the intersection of video games, poverty studies, and player experience. Crowley provides a compellingly precise argument that clarifies the often-murky concept of poverty as deployed in the study of video games. His insights will prompt all of us to rethink concepts like poverty, lore, slumming, romance, and economy in the games we play and study.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mike Piero provided the following endorsement of Dr. Adam Crowley&#8217;s latest book, Representations of Poverty in Videogames (Palgrave Macmillan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endorsement","category-game-studies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}