Communities of play : emergent cultures in multiplayer games and virtual worlds
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- ISBN: 9780262162579 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0262162571 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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xiii, 327 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Methods of Culture / Tom Boellstorff -- Play, Community, and History / Bonnie A. Nardi -- 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: Cultural Production, Meaning-Making, and Agency -- 11. Porous Magic Circles and the Ludisphere -- 12. Emergence as Design Material -- III. Playing Ethnography: Research Methods -- 13. Methodology: Playing Ethnography -- IV. The Social Construction ofthe Ethnographer -- 14. Being Artemesia: My Life as an Avatar -- V. Beyond Uru: Communities of Play on Their Own Terms -- 15. Coda: Uru Resurrection-Applied Cyberethnography as Action Research -- 16. Crafting Cultures: Emergence as Design Material -- 17. Global Playgrounds and the "PlayTum" in Culture -- Games and Virtual Worlds Cited. |
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