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.
Описание: Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Автор: Barron Lee Название: Celebrity Cultures ISBN: 1446249271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781446249277 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 6493.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A cutting edge, student friendly introduction to celebrity studies. Historically and sociologically grounded, Barron covers a broad range of theories and theorists alongside a wealth of global case studies and examples - from Julius Ceasar to modern digtial fandom.
Автор: Bennett Название: Mediated Youth Cultures ISBN: 1137287012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137287014 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of `mediated youth cultures`, covering topics such as the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more.
Автор: Pamela Kendall Stone; Helaine Selin Название: Childbirth Across Cultures ISBN: 9400730586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400730588 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These decisions, regarding place of birth, position, who receives the baby and even how the mother may or may not behave during the actual delivery, are all part of the different ways that birth is conducted.One chapter of the book will be devoted to midwives and other birth attendants.
Автор: Lee Katja, York Lorraine Название: Celebrity Cultures in Canada ISBN: 1771122226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771122221 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4639.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
"Celebrity Cultures in Canada" is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address a variety of cultural venues politics, sports, film, and literature and examine the political, cultural, material, and affective conditions that shaped celebrity in Canada and its uses both at home and abroad. The scope of the book enables the authors to highlight the trends that characterize Canadian celebrity such as transnationality and bureaucracy and explore the regional, linguistic, administrative, and indigenous cultures and institutions that distinguish fame in Canada from fame elsewhere.
In historicizing and theorizing Canada s complicated cultures of celebrity, Celebrity Cultures in Canada rejects the argument that nations are irrelevant in today s global celebrityscapes or that Canada lacks a credible or adequate system for producing, distributing, and consuming celebrity. Nation and national identities continue to matter to celebrities, to fans, and to institutions and industries that manage and profit from celebrity systems and Canada, this collection argues, has a vibrant, powerful, and often complicated and controversial relationship to fame. "
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