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.
Автор: Johan Roos; Georg von Krogh Название: Managing Strategy Processes in Emergent Industries ISBN: 1349141496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349141494 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22359.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based upon observation of and involvement in the strategy processes of three media firms a framework for strategy processes is proposed and a practical outline of how new strategy processes should be developed is presented.
Автор: Feenstra Название: Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths ISBN: 1107634512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107634510 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The economies of South Korea and Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century are to scholars of economic development what the economy of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is to economic historians. This book, first published in 2006, offers an explanation of the development paths of these two countries after the Second World War.
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Описание: Offers a compilation of selected papers from the conference on Physics and Control 2009, presenting a unified perspective underlying the thematics and strategies related to the control of physical systems with emerging applications in physics, engineering, chemistry, biology and other natural sciences.
Описание: The book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project.
Автор: D.E. Grierson; P. Hajela Название: Emergent Computing Methods in Engineering Design ISBN: 3540608737 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540608738 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 34799.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Includes papers that show the tremendous potential of emerging computing paradigms such as genetic algorithms, evolutionary computing, and neural networks for solving problems of engineering design.
Автор: Lidia Diappi Название: Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets ISBN: 3790829145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783790829143 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. This book explores housing market emergence in light of three different phenomena: search for housing, social polarization, and gentrification.
Автор: Peter Sin??k; Pitoyo Hartono; M?ria Vir??kov?; J?n Название: Emergent Trends in Robotics and Intelligent Systems ISBN: 3319107828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319107820 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26122.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What is the Role of Intelligent Technologies in the Next Generation of Robots ? The aim of the book is to contribute to shift conventional robotics in which the robots perform repetitive, pre-programmed tasks to its intelligent form, where robots possess new cognitive skills with ability to learn and adapt to changing environment.
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