In the wake of recent discourses growing around metaphors like globalization and information age, information society, information and communication technologies move into cyber anthropology's focus. Although online games and online gaming communities are not new, the rising interest in online games and the number of people playing online games means that such games and the corresponding communities that seem to evolve out of then have potential to be fertile ground for social researchers. One particularly useful method is that of virtual ethnographies, or participant observation in the game itself. Through an ethnographical research of the Lord of the Rings Online and an online gaming community that has emerged within this game, this work ...
This study examines the social organization of Gaiscíoch, a large online gaming community that exist...
This paper discusses possible application of ethnographic research in the realm of virtual reality, ...
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online g...
The virtual ethnographic study by Kathryn Stam and Michael Scialdone seeks to understand social inte...
The number of gamers has increased rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, researchers in t...
Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as Guild Wars and World of Warcraft ...
This study concerns itself with the relationship between game design and emergent social behaviour i...
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs or MMOs), now have over 22.5 million active...
Entropia Universe (EU) is a science-fiction themed massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MM...
As virtual worlds gain popularity, they are quickly becoming places of online culture. Within these...
The number of gamers has increased rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, researchers in thi...
Entropia Universe (EU) is a science-fiction themed massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MM...
Abstract Online human action takes on forms which are characteristic of each platform and community...
To date, most research into massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) has examined t...
This paper describes the method of complete participant observation-style virtual ethnography and ho...
This study examines the social organization of Gaiscíoch, a large online gaming community that exist...
This paper discusses possible application of ethnographic research in the realm of virtual reality, ...
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online g...
The virtual ethnographic study by Kathryn Stam and Michael Scialdone seeks to understand social inte...
The number of gamers has increased rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, researchers in t...
Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as Guild Wars and World of Warcraft ...
This study concerns itself with the relationship between game design and emergent social behaviour i...
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs or MMOs), now have over 22.5 million active...
Entropia Universe (EU) is a science-fiction themed massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MM...
As virtual worlds gain popularity, they are quickly becoming places of online culture. Within these...
The number of gamers has increased rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, researchers in thi...
Entropia Universe (EU) is a science-fiction themed massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MM...
Abstract Online human action takes on forms which are characteristic of each platform and community...
To date, most research into massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) has examined t...
This paper describes the method of complete participant observation-style virtual ethnography and ho...
This study examines the social organization of Gaiscíoch, a large online gaming community that exist...
This paper discusses possible application of ethnographic research in the realm of virtual reality, ...
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online g...