Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

by Celia Pearce

Book Overview

The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.

Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026251673X
• ISBN13: 9780262516730
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher