Multiplayer Online Games: Origins, Players, and Social Dynamics

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Guo Freeman (University of Cincinnati, School of Information Technology, Ohio, USA)

Multiplayer Online Games

Origins, Players, and Social Dynamics

Guo Freeman (University of Cincinnati, School of Information Technology, Ohio, USA)

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Productivity Press
23 February 2018

Ethical & social aspects of computing; Digital animation; Human-computer interaction

"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, experiments, network analysis, and case studies). It concludes that MOGs represent a highly sophisticated, networked, multimedia and multimodal Internet technology, which can construct entertaining, simultaneous, persistent social virtual worlds for gamers. Overall, the book shows that what we can learn from MOGs is how games and gaming, as ubiquitous activities, fit into ordinary life in today’s information society, in the moments where the increased use of media as entertainment, the widespread application of networked information technologies, and participation in new social experiences intersect.

Key Features:

Contains pertinent knowledge about online gaming: its history, technical features, player characteristics, social dynamics, and research methods

Sheds light on the potential future of online gaming, and how this would impact every aspect of our everyday lives – socially, culturally, technologically, and economically

Asks promising questions based on cutting-edge research in the field of online game design and development"

By: Guo Freeman (University of Cincinnati School of Information Technology Ohio USA)
Imprint: Productivity Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9781498767651
ISBN 10: 1498767656
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 23 February 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Why Online Gaming Studies Now? What Are Multiplayer Online Games (MOG). Who Plays MOGs? Social Dynamics of MOGs. Methodologies for the Study of MOGs. New Phenomena, New Opportunities. Implications for Future Studies.

Guo Freeman is an Assistant Professor in Information Technology at the University of Cincinanti. Her.research interests, broadly construed, concern HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), CSCW (Computer-Supported Collaborative Work), and social computing. Specifically, she focuses on computer-mediated collaboration and computer-mediated interpersonal relationships, for example: how digital games affect interpersonal relationships and group behavior, and how to design and implement games that better afford and support such new forms of intimate and collaborative experiences.