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Play Between Worlds Exploring Online Game Culture

Paperback • 2009 • English

Play Between Worlds Exploring Online Game Culture

By T. L. Taylor

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About the book

A study of Everquest that provides a snapshot of multiplayer gaming culture, questions the truism that computer games are isolating and alienating, and offers insights into broader issues of work and play, gender identity, technology, and commercial culture. In Play Between Worlds, T. L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps--as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumpti...Show more

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ISBN

9780262512626

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Play Between Worlds Exploring Online Game Culture

Format

Paperback

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