Communities of play : emergent cultures in multiplayer games and virtual worlds / / Celia Pearce and Artemesia

• Autore: Pearce Celia
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 794.8/1
• Soggetto topico: Internet games - Social aspects; Fantasy games - Social aspects; Role playing - Social aspects; Shared virtual environments - Social aspects; Communities; Community life
• 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.: 9910811768403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II