Digital culture, play, and identity : a World of Warcraft reader / / edited by Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822481703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-262-29254-8; 1-282-09960-4; 9786612099601; 0-262-27084-6; 1-4356-4328-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CorneliussenHilde; RettbergJill Walker
• Disciplina: 794.8
• Soggetti: Computer games - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: "Orc professor LFG," or, Researching in Azeroth culture / Hilde Corneliussen and Jill Walker -- Corporate ideology in World of Warcraft / Scott Rettberg -- "Never such innocence again" : war and histories in World of Warcraft / Esther MacCallum-Stewart -- World of Warcraft as a playground for feminism / Hilde Corneliussen -- The familiar and the foreign : playing (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft world / Jessica Langer -- A hollow world : World of Warcaft as spatial practice / Espen Aarseth -- World creation and lore : World of Warcraft as rich text / Tanya Krzywinska -- What makes World of Warcraft a world? : a note on death and dying / Lisbeth Klastrup -- Quests in World of Warcraft : deferral and repetition play / Jill Walker -- Does World of Warcraft change everything? : how a PVP server, multinational playerbase, and surveillance mod scene caused me pause / T.L. Taylor -- Humans playing World of Warcraft, or, Deviant strategies? / Torill Elvira Mortensen -- Role-play vs gameplay : the difficulties of playing a role in World of Warcraft identity / Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Justin Parsler -- Character identification in World of Warcraft : the relationship between capacity and appearance / Ragnhild Tronstad -- ; Playing with names : gaming and naming in World of Warcraft / Charlotte Hagstrom.
• Sommario/riassunto: Exploring World of Warcraft as both cultural phenomenon and game, with contributions by writers and researchers who have immersed themselves in the WoW gameworld.