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Online Games, Social Narratives (Hardcover)
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Online Games, Social Narratives (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
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Online gaming is changing. It is no longer enough to analyse one
type of online community in order to understand the phenomenon of
players who take part in online worlds, or to generalise about
their behaviour by looking at one single type of online gaming.
This book looks at different types of games in the online gaming
genre. MacCallum-Stewart studies the different ways in which online
games create social environments, and how players choose to
interpret these. These games vary from the immensely popular social
networking games on Facebook such as Farmville to Massively
Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games to "Free to Play" online
gaming and to console communities such as players of Xbox Live and
PS3 games. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of social
gaming online, examining how it is changing the way that players
respond to games. This is one of the central issues that
MacCallum-Stewart explores: When are games social, and what
narrative devices make them so?
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