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Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft

verfasst von : Bonnie Nardi, Justin Harris

Erschienen in: International Handbook of Internet Research

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

We analyze collaborative play in an online video game, World of Warcraft, the most popular multiplayer video game with 11 million players in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Based on an immersive ethnographic study, we describe how the social organization of the game and player culture affect players’ enjoyment and learning of the game. We discovered that play is characterized by a multiplicity of collaborations from brief informal encounters to highly organized play in structured groups. The variety of collaborations makes the game more fun and provides rich learning opportunities. We contrast these varied collaborations, including those with strangers, to the “gold standard” of Gemeinschaft-like communities of close relations in tightknit groups.

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Metadaten
Titel
Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft
verfasst von
Bonnie Nardi
Justin Harris
Copyright-Jahr
2010
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Buch
International Handbook of Internet Research

Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-9788-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4020-9789-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2010

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9789-8_24