Play between worlds : exploring online game culture /
"In Play Between Worlds, T.L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps - as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and al...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2006
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Finding new worlds
- 2. Gaming lifeworlds : social play in persistent environments
- 3. Beyond fun : instrumental play and power games
- 4. Where the women are
- 5. Whose game is this anyway?
- 6. The future of persistent worlds and critical game studies.
