Multiplayer Online Games: Origins, Players, and Social Dynamics

by Guo Freeman

Book Overview

Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) have become a new genre of "play culture," integrating communication and entertainment in a playful, computer-mediated environment that evolves through user interaction. This book comprehensively reviews the origins, players, and social dynamics of MOGs, as well as six major empirical research methods used in previous works to study MOGs (i.e., observation/ethnography, survey/interviews, content and discourse analysis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498767656
• ISBN13: 9781498767651
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: A K PETERS
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"