Note
Includes bibliography.
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Contributors
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
2015
EDTF Date Created
2015
Description
This study examines the social organization of Gaiscíoch, a large online gaming
community that exists within the simulated world of a massively multiplayer online role
playing game (MMORPG). It provides an ethnographic account of an online gaming
community that is open to any player without skill or time commitment requirements, but
still maintains high status within the game world. This project identifies eight elements
that make this inclusive, friendly, and casual community successful in virtual worlds that
tend to be dominated by communities that have a competitive, strict, and exclusive
approach to online gaming (social interaction, code of values, leadership, rank system,
events, community building, population size, gameplay). Lastly, this project briefly
inquires about the nature of the border between the virtual and the physical and
establishes that gamers can be considered pseudo-border-inhabitants that are in control of
the community they place adjacent to them in the cyber world.
community that exists within the simulated world of a massively multiplayer online role
playing game (MMORPG). It provides an ethnographic account of an online gaming
community that is open to any player without skill or time commitment requirements, but
still maintains high status within the game world. This project identifies eight elements
that make this inclusive, friendly, and casual community successful in virtual worlds that
tend to be dominated by communities that have a competitive, strict, and exclusive
approach to online gaming (social interaction, code of values, leadership, rank system,
events, community building, population size, gameplay). Lastly, this project briefly
inquires about the nature of the border between the virtual and the physical and
establishes that gamers can be considered pseudo-border-inhabitants that are in control of
the community they place adjacent to them in the cyber world.
Language
Type
Form
Extent
100 p.
Subject (Topical)
Identifier
FA00004399
Additional Information
Includes bibliography.
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015.
FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Date Backup
2015
Date Created Backup
2015
Date Text
2015
Date Created (EDTF)
2015
Date Issued (EDTF)
2015
Extension
FAU
IID
FA00004399
Organizations
Attributed name: Florida Atlantic University
Attributed name: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Attributed name: Department of Anthropology
Person Preferred Name
Perez, Michael
author
Graduate College
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application/pdf
100 p.
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MMO gaming culture: an online gaming family
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Origin Information
2015
2015
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Location
Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Place
Boca Raton, Fla.
Sub Location
Digital Library
Title
MMO gaming culture: an online gaming family
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MMO gaming culture: an online gaming family