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Star Worlds - Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds (Paperback)
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Star Worlds - Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds (Paperback)
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Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online
virtualworlds connected with popular science fiction-specifically,
with StarWars and Star Trek-that have been inhabited for over a
decade bycomputer gamers. The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises,
both of whichhave shaped the dominant science fiction mythologies
of the last halfcentury,offer profound conceptions of the tension
between freedomand control in human economic, political, and social
interactions.Bainbridge investigates the human and technological
dynamics of fouronline virtual worlds based on these two very
different traditions: themassive multiplayer online games Star Wars
Galaxies; Star Wars: The OldRepublic; Star Trek Online; and the
Star Trek community in the non-game,user-created virtual
environment, Second Life. The four "star worlds" explored in this
book illustrate the dilemmasconcerning the role of technology as
liberator or oppressor in ourpost-industrial society, and represent
computer simulations of futurepossibilities of human experience.
Bainbridge considers the relationshipbetween a real person and the
role that person plays, the relationshipof an individual to
society, and the relationship of human beings tocomputing
technology. In addition to collecting ethnographic andquantitative
data about the social behavior of other players, he hasimmersed
himself in each of these worlds, role-playing 14 avatars
withdifferent skills and goals to gain new insights into the
variety of playerexperience from a personal perspective.
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