Communities of play : emergent cultures in multiplayer games and virtual worlds / / Celia Pearce and Artemesia ; forewords by Tom Boellstorff and Bonnie A. Nardi
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Pearce Celia
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Communities of play : emergent cultures in multiplayer games and virtual worlds / / Celia Pearce and Artemesia ; forewords by Tom Boellstorff and Bonnie A. Nardi
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 794.8/1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Video games - Social aspects |
| Fantasy games - Social aspects | |
| Role playing - Social aspects | |
| Shared virtual environments - Social aspects | |
| Communities | |
| Community life | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | GAME STUDIES/Online Games |
| DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/Social Media & Networking | |
| SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Methods of Culture -- Play, Community, and History -- Acknowledgments -- I Play, Community, and Emergent Cultures -- 1 Communities of Play and the Global Playground -- 2 Virtual Worlds, Play Ecosystems, and the Ludisphere -- 3 Emergence in Cultures, Games, and Virtual Worlds -- 4 Reading, Writing, and Playing Cultures -- II The Uru Diaspora -- 5 An Imaginary Homeland -- 6 Identity as Place -- 7 The Inner Lives of Avatars -- 8 Communities and Cultures of Play -- 9 Patterns of Emergence -- 10 Productive Play -- 11 Porous Magic Circles and the Ludisphere -- 12 Emergence as Design Material -- III Playing Ethnography -- 13 Methodology -- IV The Social Construction of the Ethnographer -- 14 Being Artemesia -- V Beyond Uru -- 15 Coda: Uru Resurrection -- 16 Crafting Cultures -- 17 Global Playgrounds and the "Play Turn" In Culture -- Games and Virtual Worlds Cited -- References -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Communities of play |
| ISBN: | 0-262-29154-1 |
| 1-282-69471-5 | |
| 9786612694714 | |
| 0-262-25912-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778555503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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