This special issue of The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, co-edited with Jennifer deWinter, addresses gamification as a concern of labor politics. The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds is a peer-reviewed, internationally distributed journal that presents game studies scholarship from a variety of disciplines.

Table of Contents

Introduction

“Games, gamification, and labour politics,” Jennifer Dewinter And  Carly A. Kocurek

Articles

“Taylorism 2.0: Gamification, scientific management and the capitalist appropriation of play,” Jennifer Dewinter, Carly A. Kocurek, and  Randall Nichols

“Zombification?: Gamification, motivation, and the user,” Steven Conway

“Gamification as twenty-first-century ideology,” Mathias Fuchs

“Towards gamification transparency: A conceptual framework for the development of responsible gamified enterprise systems,” Marigo Raftopoulos

Interview

“America’s Army and the Military recruitment and management of ‘Talent’: An interview with Colonel Casey Wardynski,” Robertson Allen