Freeman Guo (University Of Cincinnati School Of Information Technology Ohio Usa) - Multiplayer Online Games Origins Players And Social Dynamics - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Multiplayer Online Games (MO Gs) have become a new genre of "play culture " integrating communication and entertainment in a playful computer - mediated environment that evolves through user interaction. This book comprehensively reviews the origins players and social dynamics of MO Gs as well as six major empirical research methods used in previous works to study MO Gs (i. e. observation/ethnography survey/interviews content and discourse analysis experiments network analysis and case studies). It concludes that MO Gs represent a highly sophisticated networked multimedia and multimodal Internet technology which can construct entertaining simultaneous persistent social virtual worlds for gamers. Overall the book shows that what we can learn from MO Gs is how games and gaming as ubiquitous activities fit into ordinary life in today's information society in the moments where the increased use of media as entertainment the widespread application of networked information technologies and participation in new social experiences intersect. Key Features: Contains pertinent knowledge about online gaming: its history technical features player characteristics social dynamics and research methods Sheds light on the potential future of online gaming and how this would impact every aspect of our everyday lives socially culturally technologically and economically Asks promising questions based on cutting - edge research in the field of online game design and development
Title: Multiplayer Online Games Origins Players And Social Dynamics
Author(s): Freeman Guo (University Of Cincinnati School Of Information Technology Ohio Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9781498767651
Pages: 166 Pages, 50 Illustrations, Black And White; 50 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 2/23/2018
Category: Human-Computer Interaction