Identity and Collaboration in World of Warcraft

Identity and Collaboration in World of Warcraft
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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 9781602356252
ISBN-13 : 1602356254
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Book Synopsis Identity and Collaboration in World of Warcraft by : Phillip Michael Alexander

Download or read book Identity and Collaboration in World of Warcraft written by Phillip Michael Alexander and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electracy and Transmedia Studies | Series Editors: Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes. IDENTITY AND COLLABORATION IN WORLD OF WARCRAFT tells the story of what happens when a Cherokee gamer, using a storyteller’s perspective and a methodology built from equal parts Indigenous tradition and current academic field knowledge, spends a year in what was at-the-time the largest online video game in the world. Following from work by James Paul Gee and Bonnie Nardi, Phillip Michael Alexander ventured forth into the game world to see what someone who was a gamer long before he was an academic might see in this same fascinating virtual space. In working with, playing with, and sharing the stories of a ten-person “raid” group—players performing at the highest level within the game—he set out to determine how those gamers most invested in success built identities and communities. The resulting work is a reader-friendly, theory-informed, virtual-boots-on-the-virtual-ground look at how gamers craft in-game identities, find like-minded gamers to form group identities, then organize to do staggering amounts of work in a virtual world. For anyone who ever wondered what the appeal of World of Warcraft is, Phillip Michael Alexander illustrates how some of the most active, most engaged, and most talented players spend their time in that virtual world.


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