Digital Culture, Play, and Identity

by Jill Walker Rettberg

Book Overview

Exploring World of Warcraft as both cultural phenomenon and game, with contributions by writers and researchers who have immersed themselves in the WoW gameworld.

World of Warcraft is the world's most popular massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), with (as of March 2007) more than eight million active subscribers across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, who play the game an astonishing average of twenty hours a week. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516691
• ISBN13: 9780262516693
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher