The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will host Marc Steinberg and his talk "From Video Games to the Mobile Internet: The Gaming Platform Economy in Japan" as part of the center's Asia Pop series on March 23.
This lecture by Dr. Marc Steinberg, Associate Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, will situate Japanese mobile gaming within the longer history of mobile platforms in Japan in an effort to better understand the close relationship between mobile gaming and what we now know as the platform economy.It starts at 5:00 pm and is free and open to the public, though registration is required.