ISBN:
9780415556194
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (313 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Gamers : The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games
DDC:
306.482
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
There is little question of the social, cultural and economic importance of video games in the world today, with gaming now rivalling the movie and music sectors as a major leisure industry and pastime. The significance of video games within our everyday lives has certainly been increased and shaped by new technologies and gaming patterns, including the rise of home-based games consoles, advances in mobile telephone technology, the rise in more 'sociable' forms of gaming, and of course the advent of the Internet. This book explores the opportunities, challenges and patterns of gameplay and soc
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Online Gaming in Context; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; 1. The social and cultural significance of online gaming: Garry Crawford, Victoria K. Gosling and Ben Light; Part II: Production and play; 2. Player production and innovation in online games: time for new rules?: Aphra Kerr; 3. Conflict, thought communities and textual appropriation in MMORPGs: Esther MacCallum-Stewart; 4. Thrift players in a twisted game world? A study of private online game servers: Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun
Description / Table of Contents:
5. The only (end)game in town: designing for retention in World of Warcraft: Douglas Brown6. The boardgame online: Simulating the experience of physical games: Neil Randall; 7. Games in the mobile Internet: understanding contextual play in Flickr and Facebook: Frans Mäyrä; 8. The whereabouts of play, or how the magic circle helps create social identities in virtual worlds: Thiago Falcão and José Carlos Ribeiro; 9. Framing the game: four game-related approaches to Goffman's frames: René Glas, Kristine Jørgensen, Torill Mortensen and Luca Rossi; Part III: Communities and Communication
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Identity-as-place: the construction of game refugees and fictive ethnicities: Celia Pearce and Artemesia11. The rise and fall of 'Cardboard Tube Samurai': Kenneth Burke identifying with the World of Warcraft: Christopher A. Paul and Jeffrey Philpott; 12. Analyzing player communication in multi-player games: Anders Drachen; 13. Recallin' Fagin: linguistic accents, intertextuality and othering in narrative offline and online video games: Astrid Ensslin; 14. Second Life as a digitally mediated third place: social capital in virtual world communities: Fern M. Delamere
Description / Table of Contents:
15. Representations of race and gender within the gamespace of the MMO EverQuest: Keith Massie16. Wordslinger: visualizing physical abuse in a virtual environment: Kate E. Taylor; Part IV: Conclusion; 17. It's not just a game: contemporary challenges for games research and the internet: Garry Crawford, Victoria K. Gosling and Ben Light; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Online Gaming in Context; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; 1. The social and cultural significance of online gaming: Garry Crawford, Victoria K. Gosling and Ben Light; Part II: Production and play; 2. Player production and innovation in online games: time for new rules?: Aphra Kerr; 3. Conflict, thought communities and textual appropriation in MMORPGs: Esther MacCallum-Stewart; 4. Thrift players in a twisted game world? A study of private online game servers: Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun
Description / Table of Contents:
5. The only (end)game in town: designing for retention in World of Warcraft: Douglas Brown6. The boardgame online: Simulating the experience of physical games: Neil Randall; 7. Games in the mobile Internet: understanding contextual play in Flickr and Facebook: Frans Mäyrä; 8. The whereabouts of play, or how the magic circle helps create social identities in virtual worlds: Thiago Falcão and José Carlos Ribeiro; 9. Framing the game: four game-related approaches to Goffman's frames: René Glas, Kristine Jørgensen, Torill Mortensen and Luca Rossi; Part III: Communities and Communication
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Identity-as-place: the construction of game refugees and fictive ethnicities: Celia Pearce and Artemesia11. The rise and fall of 'Cardboard Tube Samurai': Kenneth Burke identifying with the World of Warcraft: Christopher A. Paul and Jeffrey Philpott; 12. Analyzing player communication in multi-player games: Anders Drachen; 13. Recallin' Fagin: linguistic accents, intertextuality and othering in narrative offline and online video games: Astrid Ensslin; 14. Second Life as a digitally mediated third place: social capital in virtual world communities: Fern M. Delamere
Description / Table of Contents:
15. Representations of race and gender within the gamespace of the MMO EverQuest: Keith Massie16. Wordslinger: visualizing physical abuse in a virtual environment: Kate E. Taylor; Part IV: Conclusion; 17. It's not just a game: contemporary challenges for games research and the internet: Garry Crawford, Victoria K. Gosling and Ben Light; Index
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