Summary Of Labor Of Fun By Nick Yee

In Labor of Fun by Nick Yee, he discusses the idea that interactive online games are essentially a convergence between what we do in real life and our digital world. He touches also on the idea that it odd that there is so much overlapping between the activities we do when working in comparison to what we so for fun online. Throughout is writing he compares the roles we take online in these games to the different career paths that we can take in life. He explains that at a very basic level all of these task involve the basic career skills that we need to succeed in the work force. However, he finds it hypocritical that we use this digital realm as a sort of escapism when in fact we do not really escape from anything that we do in the real world. I believe that this theory of his can be expanded to other sources of media. Therefore, for my analysis, I will do a comparison of a real world activity that people tend to take part in to a different sort of digital escapism. For this I believe that the difference between normal world news such as reading The New York Times or watching CNN compares to watching comedy news shows such as The Daily Show. After this analysis, it will be easy to see how Nick Yee’s thesis can be compared to many different types of media. In this …show more content…
Therefore, never actually letting us escape due to the convergence of the digital and real world. Media in general has often been an outlet for people to escape their responsibilities for simple and entertaining distractions. However, just as the world of video games has become more labor filled, our television entertainment has become more news filled. Overall, the media has been changed to convince the viewer that the message is specifically more fun in this setting, when really it is simply the same mundane task at