Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader

by Jill Walker Rettberg

Book Overview

Exploring 'World of Warcraft' as both cultural phenomenon and game, with contributions from writers and researchers who have immersed themselves in the WoW gameworld, this study examines such things as how WoW reflects the real world, its construction of gender and its treatment of death.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262033704
• ISBN13: 9780262033701
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.1"