Multiplayer Online Games - Origins, Players, and Social Dynamics (Hardcover)

Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) have become a new genre of "play culture," integrating communication and entertainment in a playful, computer-mediated environment that evolves through user interaction. This book comprehensively reviews the origins, players, and social dynamics of MOGs, as well as six major empirical research methods used in previous works to study MOGs (i.e., observation/ethnography, survey/interviews, content and discourse analysis, experiments, network analysis, and case studies). It concludes that MOGs represent a highly sophisticated, networked, multimedia and multimodal Internet technology, which can construct entertaining, simultaneous, persistent social virtual worlds for gamers. Overall, the book shows that what we can learn from MOGs is how games and gaming, as ubiquitous activities, fit into ordinary life in today's information society, in the moments where the increased use of media as entertainment, the widespread application of networked information technologies, and participation in new social experiences intersect. Key Features: Contains pertinent knowledge about online gaming: its history, technical features, player characteristics, social dynamics, and research methods Sheds light on the potential future of online gaming, and how this would impact every aspect of our everyday lives - socially, culturally, technologically, and economically Asks promising questions based on cutting-edge research in the field of online game design and development

General

Imprint:	A K Peters Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Guo Freeman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	166
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-9287-3
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Image processing > Computer animation Promotions
LSN:	0-8153-9287-7
Barcode:	9780815392873

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