Communication and the culture of fantasy in role-playing games /
behavior while playing these games. Gamers use multiple
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | behavior while playing these games. Gamers use multiple conception of "text," as elucidated in the popular culture conducted at the research site. Both the field notes and the fictional characters the players portray, and the real world found to be highly complex, as is their communication frames is a defining characteristic of experienced members of Goffman called them, to guide their communication while interviews serve as the data base which support the claims is desirable for obtaining a thorough description of the made in this study. Role-playing games are popular culture non-discrete styles of play, and a clear and consistent of the culture as data are collected. Detailed field notes of the role-playing game subculture in a Texas college town. of this and potentially other forms of interactive text. Over a sixteen month period, data were gathered by a participant observer who became a full member of the culture. participating in a collaborative act with the other members playing game phenomenon, certain elements in the current playing, as they alternate between the fantasy world which popular culture models are useful in understanding the role- progression of play styles is described. Although current provides the setting for the game and the home of the research site, and that the researcher in such a role is situational definitions or "frames", as sociologist Erving subculture. The consumption patterns of this subculture are texts primarily consumed by a mostly white male urban The methodology applied herein espouses that this membership the subculture. Players exhibit a number of different though theory of John Fiske, prove to be too limiting. An addition they themselves inhabit. The ability to shift between these This is an ethnographic study of the communication behaviors to existing theory is presented which captures the qualities were taken by the researcher, and interviews of members were |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Speech Communication". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 129 leaves ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |