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Online gaming and wellbeing among Pacific youth: a scoping review. [PDF]
J R Soc N ZABSTRACT Online gaming has become a core activity for leisure and as a career option. However, discourses on gaming are often adult‐centric and position online gaming as detrimental to youth mental health and wellbeing. There is extensive research into online gaming and its intersections with gender and age, but our interests lie in gaming literature ...
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Commodifying Scarcity: Society, Struggle, and Spectacle in World of Warcraft
Eludamos, 2010 Overrun by monsters and tyrants, and ravaged by fanaticism, excess, and greed, World of Warcraft offers players a chance to struggle metaphorically against that which oppresses them: the excesses of late capitalism as they are represented by the game’s ...
Kevin Moberly
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Rezension/Essay: The Warcraft Civilization – Social Science in a Virtual World
Medienimpulse, 2013 "World of Warcraft" (WoW) ist ein Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) bestehend aus hunderten parallel zueinander existierenden Bereichen, so genannten "realms", welche simultan von mehreren tausend TeilnehmerInnen bzw.
Karl H. Stingeder
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IDA: International Design and Art Journal, 2022 This study aims to evaluate the structures of Azeroth, the fictional built world of the World of Warcraft video game, as samples of vernacular architecture. Therefore, the scope of the study contains video game architecture, vernacular architecture, and
Atlıhan Onat Karacalı
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Avatar affectivity and affection
Transformations, 2018 Avatars and gamers create channels of affective flow through their connection to a gameworld. Elsewhere (Wilde and Evans) I have explored this flow as an empathic exchange, wherein the desires of each must be aligned with the other in order to ...
Dr. Poppy Wilde
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Bayesian Modeling of a Human MMORPG Player [PDF]
, 2010 This paper describes an application of Bayesian programming to the control of an autonomous avatar in a multiplayer role-playing game (the example is based on World of Warcraft).
Bessiere, Pierre, Synnaeve, Gabriel
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Social dimensions of expertise in World of Warcraft players
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2009 Expertise development in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 2004) depends greatly on a player's use of social skills to gain access to expert player groups and accrue social and cultural capital.
Mark Chen
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Learning in virtual worlds : Using communities of practice to explain how people learn from play [PDF]
, 2009 Although there is interest in the educational potential of online multiplayer games and virtual worlds, there is still little evidence to explain specifically what and how people learn from these environments. This paper addresses this issue by exploring
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Aportes metodológicos de la etnografía digital latinoamericana basados en el World of Warcraft
Revista Uruguaya de Antropología y Etnografía, 2019 El presente trabajo ofrece aportaciones a la metodología etnográfica digital, la cual es compartida por los estudios culturales posmodernos que integran la etnografía de la antropología como metodología transversal y sistemática a todas las demás ...
Daniel Enrique Castillo Torres +2 more
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Detection of Deception in a Virtual World [PDF]
, 2013 This work explores the role of multimodal cues in detection of deception in a virtual world, an online community of World of Warcraft players. Case studies from a five-year ethnography are presented in three categories: small-scale deception in text ...
Collister, Lauren B
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