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" Digital culture, play, and identity : "
edited by Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg.
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BL
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986149
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b740519
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Digital culture, play, and identity : : a World of Warcraft reader /\ edited by Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, MA :: MIT Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) :: illustrations
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0262270846
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: 1435643283
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: 9780262270847
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: 9781435643284
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0262033704
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9780262033701
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: "Orc professor LFG," or, Researching in Azeroth culture / Hilde Corneliussen and Jill Walker -- Corporate ideology in World of Warcraft / Scott Rettberg -- "Never such innocence again" : war and histories in World of Warcraft / Esther MacCallum-Stewart -- World of Warcraft as a playground for feminism / Hilde Corneliussen -- The familiar and the foreign : playing (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft world / Jessica Langer -- A hollow world : World of Warcaft as spatial practice / Espen Aarseth -- World creation and lore : World of Warcraft as rich text / Tanya Krzywinska -- What makes World of Warcraft a world? : a note on death and dying / Lisbeth Klastrup -- Quests in World of Warcraft : deferral and repetition play / Jill Walker -- Does World of Warcraft change everything? : how a PVP server, multinational playerbase, and surveillance mod scene caused me pause / T.L. Taylor -- Humans playing World of Warcraft, or, Deviant strategies? / Torill Elvira Mortensen -- Role-play vs gameplay : the difficulties of playing a role in World of Warcraft identity / Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Justin Parsler -- Character identification in World of Warcraft : the relationship between capacity and appearance / Ragnhild Tronstad -- Playing with names : gaming and naming in World of Warcraft / Charlotte Hagström.
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Computer games-- Social aspects.
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World of Warcraft (Game)
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Computer games-- Social aspects.
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GAMES-- Video Electronic.
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World of Warcraft (Game)
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| Dewey Classification
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794.8
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GV1469.27.D55 2008eb
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Corneliussen, Hilde.
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Rettberg, Jill Walker.
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