Publications

VIDEO GAMES
  • ​Forthcoming — A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press​
  • ​2019 — The Neocolonial Practice of Casual Games. Critical Studies in Media Communication (with Robert Mejia).
  • 2019 — Bulut, Ergin. Çalışmanın Geleceği: Platform Kapitalizmi ve Robotlar (The Future of Work: Platform Capitalism and Robots). Varlık (Ocak-January).
  • 2018 — Bulut, Ergin. Dijital Oyun Endüstrisinde Çalışma Aşkı ve Güvencesizlik (Labor of Love and Precarity in Digital Game Industry). Varlık (Ocak-January):18-22. ​
  • ​2018 — One-Dimensional Creativity: A Marcusean Critique of Work and Play in the Video Game Industry. Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Journal for a Global Sustainable Society 16 (2): 757-771.
  • 2016 — Bulut, Ergin. “Video Oyun Test Odasında Playboring: Video Oyun Test İşinde Güvencesizlik ve Eğlencenin Değersizleşmesinin Çakışması [Turkish Translation of ‘Playboring in the Tester Pit: The Convergence of Precarity and the Degradation of Fun in Video Game Testing’].” Modus Operandi: İlişkisel Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 3: 111–37.
  • 2016 — Bulut, Ergin, and Robert Mejia. “Designing Emotions: Deliver the Nets, Eradicate Malaria in Africa and Feel Good?” In Emotions, Technology and Design, edited by Safiya Umoja Noble and Sharon Tettegah, 213–27. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • 2015 — Bulut, Ergin. “Glamor Above, Precarity Below: Immaterial Labor in the Video Game Industry.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 32 (3): 193–207. 
  • 2015 — Bulut, Ergin. “Playboring in the Tester Pit: The Convergence of Precarity and the Degradation of Fun in Video Game Testing.” Television & New Media 16 (3): 240–58
  • 2014 — Bulut, Ergin, Robert Mejia, and Cameron McCarthy. 2014. “Governance through Philitainment: Playing the Benevolent Subject.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 11 (4): 342–61. 
  • 2013 — ​Bulut, Ergin. “Seeing and Playing as Labor: Toward a Visual Materialist Pedagogy of Video Games Through Walter Benjamin.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 35 (5): 408–25. ​

PRECARITY AND CREATIVE LABOR IN THE DIGITAL AGE
  • 2018 — Bulut, Ergin, Serhat Kaymas, and Mutlu Binark (Eds.). Creative Industries and Creative Labor. Moment Journal of Cultural Studies. Vol 5, No 2.
  • 2018 — Allmer Thomas, and Ergin Bulut. Academic Labor, Digital Media, and Capitalism. Communication, Capitalism, and Critique 16(1) (edited special issue with Thomas Allmer).
  • 2017 — Can the Intern Resist? Precarity of Blue Collar Labor and the Fragmented Resistance of the White-Collar Intern in Lauren Cantet’s Human Resources. Journal of Communication Inquiry 41 (1): 42-59.
  • 2016 — Bulut, Ergin. “Video Oyun Test Odasında Playboring: Video Oyun Test İşinde Güvencesizlik ve Eğlencenin Değersizleşmesinin Çakışması [Turkish Translation of ‘Playboring in the Tester Pit: The Convergence of Precarity and the Degradation of Fun in Video Game Testing’].” Modus Operandi: İlişkisel Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 3: 111–37.
  • 2016 — Bulut, Ergin. “Labor in the Digital Age.” In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, edited by Michael A. Peters. Springer.
  • 2015 — Bulut, Ergin. “Glamor Above, Precarity Below: Immaterial Labor in the Video Game Industry.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 32 (3): 193–207. 
  • 2015 — Bulut, Ergin. “Playboring in the Tester Pit: The Convergence of Precarity and the Degradation of Fun in Video Game Testing.” Television & New Media 16 (3): 240–58
  • 2013 — Bulut, Ergin, and Evren Dinçer. “Mediation of Financial Crisis on Film: Keeping the American Dream as the Big Other Alive.” In Mobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era, edited by Cameron McCarthy, Karla Palma, Alicia Kozma, Margaret Fitzpatrick, and Nicole Lamers, 105–23. Urbana: Common Ground Publishing.
  • 2013 — Bulut, Ergin. “Labor, Aesthetics, and Cultural Studies in the Age of Digital Capitalism.” In The New Development Paradigm: Education, Knowledge Economy, and Digital Futures, edited by Michael A. Peters, Daniel Araya, and Tina Besley, 66–94. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • 2012 — Bulut, Ergin. “Learning to FlexLabor: How Working Class Kids Train for Flexible Labor Markets.” In Neoliberal Transformation of Education in Turkey: Political and Ideological Analysis of Educational Reforms in the Age of AKP, edited by Kemal Inal and Guliz Akkaymak, 71–82. US: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • 2011 — Bulut, Ergin. “Creative Economy: Seeds of Social Collaboration or Capital’s Hunt for General Intellect and Imagination?” In Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor, edited by Michael Peters and Ergin Bulut, 151–68. New York: Peter Lang.
  • 2011 — Bulut, Ergin. “Labor and Totality in ‘Participatory’ Digital Capitalism.” In New Times: Making Sense of Critical/Cultural Theory in a Digital Age, edited by Cameron McCarthy, Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, and Robert Mejia, 51–70. New York: Peter Lang.
  • 2010 — Bulut, Ergin. “Transformation of the Turkish Vocational Training System: Capitalization, Modularization and Learning Unto Death.” Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 8 (1): 362–88.

MEDIA, POLITICS AND CITIZENSHIP
  • Forthcoming — Bulut, Ergin, Başak Can, and Nurçin İleri. “Cementing Hegemony in New Turkey: The Construction Spectacle of Istanbul and the Rise of Right-Wing Masculine Populism.” In Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization, edited by Ergin Bulut, Keoli Goel, Brenda Sanya, Bryce Henson, Warren Crichlow, and Cameron McCarthy. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Bulut, Ergin, and Nurcin Ileri. “Screening Right-Wing Populism in ‘New Turkey’: Neo-Ottomanism, Historical Dramas and the Case of Payitaht Abdulhamid.” In Routledge Companion to Global Television, edited by Shawn Shimpach. New York: Routledge.