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Auteur(s) : Nardi, Bonnie A.
Titre(s) : My life as a night elf priest [Texte imprimé] : an anthropological account of World of warcraft / Bonnie A. Nardi
Publication : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library,
c2010
Description matérielle : 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Technologies of the imagination
Lien à la collection : Technologies of the imagination
Comprend : What is World of warcraft and who plays it? ; An ethnographic investigation of World
of warcraft ; Play as aesthetic experience ; A new medium ; Work, play, and the
magic circle ; Addiction ; Theorycraft and mods ; Gender ; Culture : WoW in China
... and North America.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"World of Warcraft rapidly became one of the most popular online world games on the
planet, amassing 11.5 million subscribers -- officially making it an online community
of gamers that had more inhabitants than the state of Ohio and was almost twice as
populous as Scotland. It's a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO in gamer jargon,
where each person controls a single character inside a virtual world, interacting
with other people's characters and computer-controlled monsters, quest-givers, and
merchants. In My Life as a Night Elf Priest, Bonnie Nardi, a well-known ethnographer
who has published extensively on how theories of what we do intersect with how we
adopt and use technology, compiles more than three years of participatory research
in Warcraft play and culture in the United States and China into this field study
of player behavior and activity. She introduces us to her research strategy and the
history, structure, and culture of Warcraft; argues for applying activity theory and
theories of aesthetic experience to the study of gaming and play; and educates us
on issues of gender, culture, and addiction as part of the play experience. Nardi
paints a compelling portrait of what drives online gamers both in this country and
in China, where she spent a month studying players in Internet cafes. Bonnie Nardi
has given us a fresh look not only at World of Warcraft but at the field of game studies
as a whole. One of the first in-depth studies of a game that has become an icon of
digital culture, My Life as a Night Elf Priest will capture the interest of both the
gamer and the ethnographer." -- Back cover.
Sujet(s) : World of Warcraft (jeu vidéo)
Indice(s) Dewey :
794.85 (23e éd.) = Jeux électroniques particuliers [World of Warcraft]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780472070985 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0472070983 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780472050987 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0472050982 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42475285v
Notice n° :
FRBNF42475285
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