Crawford / Gosling / Light Online Gaming in Context

The social and cultural significance of online games
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-27505-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

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 sociality afforded by the Internet and online gaming. Bringing together a series of original essays from both leading and emerging academics in the field of game studies, many of which employ new empirical work and innovative theoretical approaches to gaming, this book considers key issues crucial to our understanding of online gaming and associated social relations, including: patterns of play, legal and copyright issues, player production, identity construction, gamer communities, communication, patterns of social exclusion and inclusion around religion, gender and disability, and future directions in online gaming.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crawford, Garry

Gosling, Victoria K

Light, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Computerspiele, Internetspiele
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Hobbies & Spiele

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction 1. The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Gaming by 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? by Aphra Kerr 3. Conflict, Thought Communities and Textual Appropriation in MMORPGs by Esther MacCallum-Stewart 4. Thrift Players in a Twisted Game World? A Study of Private Online Game Servers by Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun 5. The Only (End)Game in Town: Designing for Retention in 'World of Warcraft' by Douglas Brown 6. The Boardgame Online: Simulating the Experience of Physical Games by Neil Randall 7. Games in the Mobile Internet: Understanding Contextual Play in Flickr and Facebook by Frans Mäyrä 8. The Whereabouts of Play, or How the Magic Circle Helps Create Social Identities in Virtual Worlds by Thiago Falcão and José Carlos Ribeiro 9. Framing the Game: Four Game-related Approaches to Goffman's Frames by René Glas, Kristine Jørgensen, Torill Mortensen and Luca Rossi Part III: Communities and Communication 10. Identity-as-Place: The Construction of Game Refugees and Fictive Ethnicities by Celia Pearce and Artemesia 11. The Rise and Fall of 'Cardboard Tube Samurai': Kenneth Burke Identifying with the 'World of Warcraft' by Chrisopher A. Paul and Jeffrey Philpott 12. Analyzing Player Communication in Multi-player Games by Anders Drachen 13. Recallin' Fagin: Linguistic Accents, Intertextuality and Othering in Narrative Offline and Online Video Games by Astrid Ensslin 14. 'Second Life' as a Digitally Mediated Third Place: Social Capital in Virtual World Communities by Fern M. Delamere 15. Representations of Race and Gender within the Gamespace of the MMO 'Everquest' by Keith Massie 16. 'Wordslinger': Visualizing Physical Abuse in a Virtual Environment by Kate E. Taylor Part IV: Conclusion 17. It's Not Just a Game: Contemporary Challenges for Games Research and the Internet by Garry Crawford, Ben Light and Victoria Gosling

Über Autor(innen)

Garry Crawford is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford, UK. His teaching and research primarily focus upon audiences, fan cultures and the everyday uses of media technologies. He is the author of Consuming Sport (2004), and the co-author of the second edition of Introducing Cultural Studies (2008, with B. Longhurst, G. Smith, G. Bagnall, and M. Osborn) and the Sage Dictionary of Leisure Studies (forthcoming 2009, with T. Blackshaw).

Victoria K. Gosling is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford, UK. Her teaching and research interests encompass gender, urban regeneration, social exclusion, leisure, popular culture and digital games. She is the current editor of the British Sociological Association newsletter Network, an editorial board member for the journal Sociology, and the former post-graduate forum convenor of the BSA.

Ben Light is Professor of Digital Media in the School of Media, Music and Performance, and a member of the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre at the University of Salford, UK. His current research interests centre on analysing the development and use of social media in everyday life.