Online Gaming in Context : The social and cultural significance of online games

ISBN-13: 9780415556194 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 320 str.

Opis

This book explores patterns of gameplay and sociality afforded by online gaming. Bringing together essays from leading and emerging academics, this book explores key issues in understanding online gaming, including: patterns of play, legality, production, identity, gamer communities, and social exclusion and inclusion.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction  1. The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Gaming  Part II: Production and Play  2. Player Production and Innovation in Online Games: Time for New Rules?  3. Conflict, Thought Communities and Textual Appropriation in MMORPGs  4. Thrift Players in a Twisted Game World? A Study of Private Online Game Servers  5. The Only (End)Game in Town: Designing for Retention in 'World of Warcraft'  6. The Boardgame Online: Simulating the Experience of Physical Games  7. Games in the Mobile Internet: Understanding Contextual Play in Flickr and Facebook  8. The Whereabouts of Play, or How the Magic Circle Helps Create Social Identities in Virtual Worlds  9. Framing the Game: Four Game-related Approaches to Goffman's Frames  Part III: Communities and Communication  10. Identity-as-Place: The Construction of Game Refugees and Fictive Ethnicities  11. The Rise and Fall of 'Cardboard Tube Samurai': Kenneth Burke Identifying with the 'World of Warcraft'  12. Analyzing Player Communication in Multi-player Games  13. Recallin' Fagin: Linguistic Accents, Intertextuality and Othering in Narrative Offline and Online Video Games  14. 'Second Life' as a Digitally Mediated Third Place: Social Capital in Virtual World Communities  15. Representations of Race and Gender within the Gamespace of the MMO 'Everquest'  16. 'Wordslinger': Visualizing Physical Abuse in a Virtual Environment  Part IV: Conclusion  17. It's Not Just a Game: Contemporary Challenges for Games Research and the Internet