Battlefields of Negotiation

Control, Agency, and Ownership in World of Warcraft

René Glas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2013
Pallas Publications (Verlag)
9789089645005 (ISBN)

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The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries set by its design, the game encourages players to appropriate and shape the game to their own wishes, resulting in highly diverse forms of play and participation. This illuminating study frames World of Warcraft as a complex socio-cultural phenomenon defined by and evolving as a result of the negotiations between groups of players as well as the game’s owners, throwing new light on complex consumer-producer relationships in the increasingly participatory but still tightly controlled media of online games.

René Glas, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University. Recent publications: Glas, R., “Playing with the gamebook: The Final Hours interactive storybook series as playful paratexts”. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (forthcoming); Glas, R. et al. “Literacy at play: An analysis of media literacy games used to foster media literacy competencies.” Frontiers – Special Issue (in press); Glas, R., “Making Mario: Shaping franchise history through paratextual play”. In: Beil, B. et al. (eds.). Paratextualizing Games: Investigations on the Paraphernalia and Peripheries of Play. Bielefield: Bielefield University Press, 2021. pp. 131-161.

PART I: FRAMING THE GAME 1. The Definition Game Tracing the MMORPG genre’s roots 2. The Many Faces of Play Ludic vs. Representational role-playing Problematizing Social Play 3. The Contracts of Play Playing on a License 4. Play and/as Participation Participation as Exploitation? 5. Battlefields of Negotiation PART II: CONTROLLING THE GAME 6. The Setup of Play Network Play Playing Machines Configuring Play 7. The rules of play Designing Play Designing cooperation Facing the other 8. Playing with fiction Representing Azeroth The space of play Stuck in time PART III: GAMING THE GAME 9. It’s about time Paratexts as cheating tools From emergence to progression Hyperproductive demystification 10. Twinking, or playing another game The luxury of twinking Going for the easy kill A game within a game 11. Playing the interface Mods as social surveillance tools Controlling code through theorycrafting Exposing the inside PART IV: CLAIMING THE GAME 12. Virtual thievery Play, work or crime The power of small print Part of the game? 13. Performing on the edge of rules and fiction Our story, your story Looking the other way. Exploration or Exploitation 14. The fragmented and the multiple Community control, controlling community With great power comes great responsibility Playing identity and community, CONCLUSION, BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Reihe/Serie	MediaMatters
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9789089645005 / 9789089645005
Zustand	Neuware