The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.
Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself.
In Communities of Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures in networked digital worlds -- actions by players that do not coincide with the intentions of the game's designers. Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora -- a group of players whose game, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, closed. These players (primarily baby boomers) immigrated into other worlds, self-identifying as "refugees"; relocated in There.com, they created a hybrid culture integrating aspects of their old world. Ostracized at first, they became community leaders. Pearce analyzes the properties of virtual worlds and looks at the ways design affects emergent behavior. She discusses the methodologies for studying online games, including a personal account of the sometimes messy process of ethnography. Pearce considers the "play turn" in culture and the advent of a participatory global playground enabled by networked digital games every bit as communal as the global village Marshall McLuhan saw united by television. Countering the ludological definition of play as unproductive and pointing to the long history of pre-digital play practices, Pearce argues that play can be a prelude to creativity.
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Описание: In this book, the authors, selected from the lecturers of the European Summer School in Information Retrieval, illustrate key problems and topics in the current development of Information Retrieval and on future search engine technology.
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Описание: The papers are organized in topical sections on IR models image retrieval, text classification, chinese language processing, text processing, application of IR, machine learning, taxonomy, IR methods, information extraction, summarization, multimedia, Web IR, and text clustering.
Автор: Inenaga Название: String Processing and Information Retrieval ISBN: 331946048X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319460482 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6988.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2016, held in Beppu, Japan, in October 2016.
Название: Advances in information retrieval ISBN: 3642122744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642122743 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Автор: Nivio Ziviani; Ricardo Baeza-Yates Название: String Processing and Information Retrieval ISBN: 3540755292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540755296 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9362.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2007, held in Santiago, Chile, October 29-31, 2007. This book presents 27 revised full papers that were reviewed and selected from 77 submissions.
Автор: Norbert Fuhr; Mounia Lalmas; Saadia Malik; Gabriel Название: Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation ISBN: 3540349626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540349624 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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