Digital Culture, Play, and Identity A World of Warcraft Reader

Name: Digital Culture, Play, and Identity A World of Warcraft Reader
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ISBN: 9780262516693

ISBN-10: 0262516691

ISBN-13: 9780262516693

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hilde G. Corneliussen, Jill Walker Rettberg

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World of Warcraft is the world's most popular massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), with (as of March 2007) more than eight million active subscribers across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, who play the game an astonishing average of twenty hours a week. This book examines the complexity of World of Warcraft from a variety of perspectives, exploring the cultural and social implications of the proliferation of ever more complex digital gameworlds. The contributors have immersed themselves in the World of Warcraft universe, spending hundreds of hours as players (leading guilds and raids, exploring moneymaking possibilities in the in-game auction house, playing different…

Book details

List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/23/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Hilde G. Corneliussen is Associate Professor of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Jill Walker Rettberg is Associate Professor of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway.