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Marzouki, Yousri, Valériane Dusaucy, Myriam Chanceaux, and Sebastiaan Mathôt. "The World (of Warcraft) through the eyes of an expert." PeerJ 5 (September 29, 2017): e3783. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3783.

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Negative correlations between pupil size and the tendency to look at salient locations were found in recent studies (e.g., Mathôt et al., 2015). It is hypothesized that this negative correlation might be explained by the mental effort put by participants in the task that leads in return to pupil dilation. Here we present an exploratory study on the effect of expertise on eye-movement behavior. Because there is no available standard tool to evaluate WoW players’ expertise, we built an off-game questionnaire testing players’ knowledge about WoW and acquired skills through completed raids, highest rated battlegrounds, Skill Points, etc. Experts (N = 4) and novices (N = 4) in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW) viewed 24 designed video segments from the game that differ in regards with their content (i.e, informative locations) and visual complexity (i.e, salient locations). Consistent with previous studies, we found a negative correlation between pupil size and the tendency to look at salient locations (experts, r = − .17, p < .0001, and novices, r = − .09, p < .0001). This correlation has been interpreted in terms of mental effort: People are inherently biased to look at salient locations (sharp corners, bright lights, etc.), but are able (i.e., experts) to overcome this bias if they invest sufficient mental effort. Crucially, we observed that this correlation was stronger for expert WoW players than novice players (Z = − 3.3, p = .0011). This suggests that experts learned to improve control over eye-movement behavior by guiding their eyes towards informative, but potentially low-salient areas of the screen. These findings may contribute to our understanding of what makes an expert an expert.
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Richards, Justin. "Wow - How World of Warcraft Can Change Behaviour & Habits." ITNOW 59, no. 4 (2017): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwx141.

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Harari, Gabriella M., Lindsay T. Graham, and Samuel D. Gosling. "Personality Impressions of World of Warcraft Players Based on Their Avatars and Usernames." International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations 7, no. 1 (January 2015): 58–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijgcms.2015010104.

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Every week an estimated 20 million people collectively spend hundreds of millions of hours playing massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). Here the authors investigate whether avatars in one such game, the World of Warcraft (WoW), convey accurate information about their players' personalities. They assessed consensus and accuracy of avatar-based impressions for 299 WoW players. The authors examined impressions based on avatars alone, and images of avatars presented along with usernames. The personality impressions yielded moderate consensus (avatar-only mean ICC = .32; avatar plus username mean ICC = .66), but no accuracy (avatar only mean r = .03; avatar plus username mean r = .01). A lens-model analysis suggests that observers made use of avatar features when forming impressions, but the features had little validity. Discussion focuses on what factors might explain the pattern of consensus but no accuracy, and on why the results might differ from those based on other virtual domains and virtual worlds.
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Zheng, Dongping, Kristi Newgarden, and Michael F. Young. "Multimodal analysis of language learning in World of Warcraft play: Languaging as Values-realizing." ReCALL 24, no. 3 (September 2012): 339–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344012000183.

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AbstractApplying Communicative Project theory (Linell, 2009), we identify and distinguish between the different coordination and language activities that emerged during an episode of World of Warcraft (WoW) gameplay involving English Language learners (ELLs). We further investigate ELLs’ coordinations between killing and caring, self and others, in which language and action arise. Using multimodal analysis, we found: 1) a diverse tapestry of communicative activities unlikely to match what would be found in a classroom environment; 2) that the values realizing involved in killing (a typical action in WoW) demonstrates a strong covariate tie with caring; and 3) that players’ values realizing is multi-layered, heterarchical and dynamic at a given time and space of situated interaction. We conclude by making suggestions for 1) the design of learning environments based on affordances for coaction and rich communicative activities and 2) the reconceiving of language learning as skilled linguistic action (Cowley, in press) grounded in situated learning and participation in intercultural, technology-mediated L2 networks.
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Braithwaite, Andrea. "WoWing Alone." Games and Culture 13, no. 2 (October 8, 2015): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412015610246.

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World of Warcraft ( WoW) is one of the most successful and longest running multiplayer online games in gaming. Over time, Blizzard Entertainment’s approach to multiplayer activities in WoW has changed. During the past decade, in-game world events, group matchmaking systems, and phasing technologies have been used to increasingly emphasize individual achievement rather than collaborative effort. The game is shifting away from sociable activities in favor of ones that situate players as powerful, atomized characters. WoW’s governmentality now encourages players to see each other as obstacles to success and to see themselves as entrepreneurial subjects. These neoliberal strategies have the potential to impact our ability to collectively imagine and create alternative forms of social interaction and organization.
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Jamaludin, Azilawati, and Yam San Chee. "Investigating Youth’s Life Online Phenomena." International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations 3, no. 4 (October 2011): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgcms.2011100101.

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This paper examines the dialectics between living in offline and digitally-mediated worlds and how youth construct their identity and sense of self, negotiate meaning, and make sense of their social experiences. Situating the study within the context of the popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft (WoW), the authors investigate the interplay between the everyday, situated lives of five digital youth gamers, aged 18 to 25, and their activities and ‘lived practices’ in WoW. Findings suggest a recurrent theme that challenges ascribed dichotomies between youth’s presence in the offline and online world in terms of their identities in play, sense of embodiment, and orientation toward work, play, and the spirit of communitas within WoW. Exploration of such a phenomenon indicates a more intimately enmeshed and dialectically coupled experience of youths’ in their contextual traversals, providing a fundamental conceptual understanding of the impact of youths’ exodus to the virtual world and its implications for 21st century teaching and learning. The outcomes address theoretical challenges associated with the interpretation of 21st century literacy performances that may be characterized as a need to move away from static and linear narratives of development to a more divergent becoming of learners through the learning process.
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Newgarden, Kristi, and Dongping Zheng. "Recurrent languaging activities in World of Warcraft: Skilled linguistic action meets the Common European Framework of Reference." ReCALL 28, no. 3 (July 29, 2016): 274–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344016000112.

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AbstractIn this study of affordances for second language (L2) learning in World of Warcraft (WoW) group play, we compared three gameplay episodes spanning a semester-long course. Applying multimodal analysis framed by ecological, dialogical and distributed (EDD) views (Zheng and Newgarden, forthcoming), we explored four English as a second language learners’ verbalizations and avatar actions. Players learned to take skilled linguistic action as they coordinated recurrent WoW gameplay activities (questing, planning next moves, traveling, learning a skill, etc.). Frequent activities matched Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) speaking proficiency descriptors, used widely in L2 teaching and learning (L2TL), providing evidence that players engaged in the types of communicative activities interaction-oriented classroom approaches develop. However, in the WoW context, interactions were not planned, but emerged as players dynamically directed the course of play. Furthermore, modalities of avatar-embodiment and conversing over Skype allowed players to flexibly integrate language and actions to co-act toward game goals, discuss non-game topics during play, or demonstrate comprehension with avatar actions alone, an affordance for less verbal players. This research builds on previous work (Zheng, Newgarden & Young, 2012) relating WoW’s multiplayer activities and L2 learners’ skilled linguistic actions. We refer to Chemero’s (2009) model of the animal-environment system to explain how L2 learners develop abilities to take skilled linguistic action by acting on affordances in WoW. The EDD framework presented may enable other researchers to account for more of the complexities involved in L2 learning in multimodal, multiplayer virtual environments.
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Newgarden, Kristi, Dongping Zheng, and Min Liu. "An eco-dialogical study of second language learners' World of Warcraft (WoW) gameplay." Language Sciences 48 (March 2015): 22–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.10.004.

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Corredor, Javier Alejandro, and Leonardo Rojas Benavides. "Narrative and Conceptual Expertise in Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games." International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations 8, no. 1 (January 2016): 44–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijgcms.2016010104.

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This article aims at investigating the differences among three groups having distinct levels of experience in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), when solving a character design task in the videogame World of Warcraft (WoW), and when planning how to use the character during gameplay. These groups consisted of inexperienced players, general experts in MMORPGs and specialized WoW domain experts. The evaluation showed that MMORPG experience developed character design abilities that could be applied to other videogames (e.g., general expertise skills). Such skills were related to the ability to identify deep features related to particular types of characters (e.g., Rogue). The results also showed that there are domain expertise specific abilities, which only experts in WoW have. Such abilities were related to building game descriptions that could be considered narrative in the cognitive sense of the term, because they include time, intention and interaction, and also to identifying WoW-specific variables.
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Toft-Nielsen, Claus. "Going home again?" MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 35, no. 66 (October 22, 2019): 003–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v35i66.106494.

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Since its release in 2004, World of Warcraft (WoW) has regularly changed the game and the play experience in signifi cant ways. Recently, Blizzard, the developer of WoW, announced the upcoming game WoW Classic: “an authentic, Blizzard-quality classic experience”. Drawing on interviews with adult WoW fans and gamers, the article examines the game as an ‘aff ective space’ (Hills, 2002) of fandom that cannot be separated from the fan narratives and experiences it mediates. A key component in this aff ective space is the notion of fan nostalgia. The nostalgic relationship between a fan and a favourite text is often imbued with an imagined history, conjoining aff ect and meaning, belief and knowledge, and making nostalgia “both a way of knowing worlds – and a discourse of knowledge” (Radstone, 2010, p. 188). The article traces diff erent and often contradictory modes of fan nostalgia connected to WoW, such as tactile feelings of technostalgia (Bolin, 2015), deeply personal and anchoring types of nostalgia in the form of totemic objects (Proctor, 2017), manifested through fan practices of collecting digital items and souvenirs (Geraghty, 2014), and interwoven with desirable and appropriate self-identity and self-narrative (Williams, 2014). In reading these modes of nostalgia, the article argues that they ultimately function as a sort of ‘homecoming’, as the gamers’ many different experiences of the game and media texts surrounding the game all come together as complex attempts of memory work, creating the possibility of establishing a home within their fandom.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "World of Warcraft (WoW)"

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Kyndel, Ludvig. "Wow! : En studie i identitetsskapande i World of Warcraft." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för studier av samhällsutveckling och kultur, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-59297.

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Datorspelet World of Warcraft har växt något enormt i popularitet sedan det kom 2004. Idag är det den största mötesplatsen på nätet med användare över hela världen. När vi möter användare på nätet är det precis som i verkligheten viktigt för oss att framställas på det sätt vi helst vill. Vi spelar en roll och bygger en identitet. Spelet erbjuder en alternativ, virtuell värld åt oss och det som är intressant för mig är att se på vilket sätt detta påverkar våra möjligheter till detta. Om en alternativ värld ger oss alternativa möjligheter. Jag vill dels se närmare på Blizzard, spelföretaget bakom spelet, och vad de givit oss för förutsättningar. Dels ska jag genom mitt agerande med andra användare ta reda på vad som kan vara viktigt för dem i deras identitetsskapande.
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Keller, Heidi, and Asta Kellokoski. "World of warcraft : en social arena." Thesis, Stockholm University, The Stockholm Institute of Education, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7993.

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Onlinespelet World of Warcraft (WoW) erbjuder ungdomar en annorlunda social arena, en värld som bara existerar online. Datorspel har blivit en växande underhållning och fler ungdomar spenderar en stor del av sin fritid framför datorn. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur ungdomarna spelar WoW och om de utnyttjar den sociala spelarenan som erbjuds. Genom att belysa spelet WoW, hoppas vi ge blivande pedagoger en ökad förståelse för onlinespel som är ett exempel på en växande populär fritidsyssla för barn och ungdomar idag. Vi har använt oss av kvalitativa intervjuer och observationer med sex pojkar i åldrarna 14-19 år. Pojkarna är alla aktiva spelare av WoW. Resultaten visar att sociala mötesplatser inom informationsteknikens arenor innebär att de traditionella förväntningarna och de vedertagna identiteterna kan överskridas och utmanas. Detta innebär att individen får ett allt bredare fält av erfarenheter och därav blir identitetens möjligheter fler. Intervjuerna visade att ungdomarnas främsta syfte inte var att skaffa sig kompisar bland de andra spelarna, utan att de andra spelarna mest fanns till för deras spelkaraktärer. Målet var att bli bäst!

Beskrivning: The massive multiplayer online role playing game, World of Warcraft (WoW) offers young players another social arena, a world only offered to them online. Computer games is becoming a growing entertainment for youth today, spending large amount of time in front of the computer. The intention of our essay was to investigate how youths play WoW and if they use the social arena offered to them. Looking into the game WoW, gives us as future educationalists an increased understanding of online games as an example of a growing popular leisure pursuit for children and youth today. We have used qualitative interviews including observations with six boys aged 14-19. The boys are all active players of WoW. Social meeting grounds in the areas of information technology exceed and challenge the traditional expectations and accepted identities. This means the individual receives a broader field of experiences making the possibilities of the identity expand. The interviews concluded that the main purpose for the boys was not to make more friends among other players. The other players were used only to enhance their own in game characters. The goal was to become best!

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Lindqvist, Anna. "My World of Warcraft : en studie om de komponenter i onlinerollspelet World of Warcraft som lockar till deltagande." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-2386.

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Fler timmar och större intresse läggs idag ner på onlinerollspel vilka under de senaste åren blivit omåttligt populära. Våra sociala beteenden har idag förändrats och vi behöver inte längre fysiskt beträda det rum vi vanligen kommunicerade i. Vi öppnar istället upp dörrarna till en ny dimension där du “är” en virtuell identitet, och där du kanske har väldigt många fler möjligheter än i ditt fysiska liv. World of Warcraft är just ett sådant spel vilket underhåller tusentals av spelare och som kommer ligga till grund för denna uppsats.

Syftet är att skapa en dokumentation av och ge en insyn i dessa nya sociala miljöer som vi finner i World of Warcraft. Vad har tillexempel en online identitet för betydelse för jaget (spelaren) och kan det som händer i ett community på internet påverka våra fysiska sociala liv? Samma sak händer om man vänder på frågan, vad händer med spelvärldens sociala liv om man inte spelar tillräckligt mycket, hur påverkar det spelandet i sig? Är en spelare tvungen att välja bara en social arena, eller finns det en god möjlighet till en balans mellan miljöerna? Frågor om interagerbarhet, interaktivitet och kommunikation i spelet kommer också att vara centrala i uppsatsen, eftersom dessa i någon form påverkar oss som individer och sociala varelser.

Alltså vad är det som lockar och varför kan vi som individer bli påverkade av detta?

De komponenter jag finner mest bidragande till delaktighet i World of Warcraft diskuteras och analyseras sedan utifrån utvalda teoretiska utgångspunkter. Syftet är också att utifrån videoinspelade intervjuer med spelarna ge en slags bild av hur fenomenet kan se ut. I Själva dokumentärfilmen ( som tillhör uppsatsen och som finns på separat DVD) läggs Fokus på intervjuerna, (där de intervjuade får en chans att säga sin mening) och de spelmiljöer man kan stöta på i World of Warcraft . Vi följer spelaren in i världen .Med dessa rörliga bilder kan vi också få större förståelse för vad World of Warcraft är och vad det betyder för miljontals människor.

I intervjuerna med dessa respondenter försöker jag att gå in i samtal som är mer djupgående och kvalitativa. Denna form av undersökning, där så få personer medverkar kan inte kvantitativt framlägga ett övergripande mönster av hur majoritetens spelvanor ser ut.

 

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Andersson, Erika, and Amanda Norman. "Förtroende och tillit i World of Warcraft : En studie utifrån WoW-användares perspektiv." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32023.

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Studien behandlar vilka interaktioner en användare behöver tillämpa för att den ska kunna finna eller skapa ett förtroende inom en guild i spelet World of Warcraft. Det övergripande syftet är att se om dessa interaktioner tillämpas på olika sätt beroende på vilken guild en användare är medlem i. Studien har främst utgått ifrån tre guilder och ett antal WoW-användares egna perspektiv, erfarenheter och tankar där undersökningarna har byggts på kvalitativa metoder. De kvalitativa metoderna inkluderade enkäter, scenario, observation och semi- strukturerade intervjuer. Analysen har till stor del utgått ifrån teorierna socialt kapital teorin och flow-teorin. Studien har även granskat hur WoW’s design och funktioner kan påverka en användares interaktioner både i och utanför spelet.
This study will show different interactions that a user needs to adjust in order to find and create trust within a guild in the game World of Warcraft. The aim of this study is to see if these interactions are used in different ways depending on which guild a user is a member in. The study is based on three different guilds and a few WoW-users perspectives, experiences and thoughts. The main methods in this study is based on qualitative methods that includes surveys, scenarios, observation and semi-structured interviews. The analysis has been based on two theories, social capital theory and the flow theory. This study has also examined how the design and features of WoW can affect a user's interactions, both in and outside the game.
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Rydberg, Lars, and Johan Hansson. "Sociala interaktioner hos utövare av World of Warcraft." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-3903.

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Titel: Sociala Interaktioner hos utövare av World of Warcraft

Författare: Lars Rydberg & Johan Hansson

Handledare: Malin Nilsson

Examinator: Ulf Petäjä

Typ av rapport: C-Uppsats

Utbildning: Media- och kommunikationsvetenskap

Syfte: Arbetet är gjort med syftet att undersöka sociala interaktioner hos de som spelar World of Warcraft och hur de själva menar sig socialt agera i spelet.

Problem: Onlinespel överlag, men speciellt spelare av World of Warcraft har media bedrivit en häxjakt mot. De menar att deras sociala erfarenheter hämmas på grund av att de spelar spelet för mycket.

Metod: Kvalitativa intervjuer med 8 personer som spelar World of Warcraft har utförts och sammanställts. Video- och ljudupptagning användes för att samla maximal mängd data.

Resultat: Resultatet av vår undersökning visar hur den sociala interaktionen ser ut hos våra informanter som spelar World of Warcraft. Interaktionen i den virtuella världen strävar efter att efterlikna den verkliga. Detta har lett till att många utövare använder denna form av interaktion som ett komplement till deras sociala liv i verkligheten.

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Lundström, Jonas, and Andreas Mååg. "Strategiskt samarbete For the Win : En studie om interaktioner i World of Warcraft." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-8702.

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Multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) spel har blivit mycket populära. Trots detta finns det begränsad forskning kring spelares interaktion och kommunikation gällande samarbete. Det här arbetet har därför riktat in sig på hur interaktion och kommunikation gällande hur samarbetet fungerar inom MMORPG spelet World of Warcraft.

Syftet med detta arbete var att undersöka möjligheter till förbättringar gällande interaktion och kommunikation för samarbete inom MMORPG spel, och inriktar sig i det här fallet speciellt på World of Warcraft.

Genom att använda tre vanligt förekommande metoder undersöktes nuvarande interaktionsmöjligheter inom World of Warcraft. Dessa metoder var deltagarobservationer som genomförs i testmiljön World of Warcraft. Enkätundersökning som var av typen webbenkät med både öppna och stängda frågor. Deltagarobservationen innefattade även kontextuella intervjuer med mer erfarna spelare som tillsammans med enkätundersökningen stödde och bekräftade resultatet från deltagarobservationen.

Med hjälp av frågeställningar som innefattade interaktion och kommunikation tog uppsatsen reda på viktiga faktorer som att erfarenhet var av avgörande betydelse för hur mycket kommunikation det behövs för ett lyckat samarbete. Textkommunikation var generellt det populäraste verktyget, men som nybörjare tog det längre tid att skriva längre meddelanden samt att förstå alla förkortningar som återkommande förekommer. Erfarenhet och awareness, eller medvetenhet på svenska, hade stor betydelse vid flera situationer. Awareness handlar om att samarbetet bygger på erfarenhet och kunskap, vilket leder till förståelse för hur man ska agera i olika situationer. I spelet handlade det främst om kunskap om de olika karaktärerna och de olika delarna av spelet som till exempel, dungeons. Det var en stor fördel att ha spelat dungeons tidigare annars kan det kännas att man som nybörjare inte har där att göra. Det fanns möjligheter att utveckla samarbetet, speciellt när det gäller spelsituationer där erfarenhet nästan var ett krav, vilket resulterar i en konflikt mellan vana och ovana spelare.

 

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Gregory, Clairellyn Rose. "Who Gender-Bends and Why? A Qualitative Study of World of Warcraft." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/421.

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According to a 2009 study, 68% of American households played video games (Entertainment Software Association). With this number continually on the rise, video games and their cultures are in need of further scholarly exploration. A video game of particular interest is a massive online game known as World of Warcraft, drawing over twelve million players worldwide (Blizzard Entertainment, 2010). With a cyberspace-based culture, World of Warcraft exposes its players to phenomenon that are unique to it, and thereby not easily understood through the same measures and evaluations offered by society at large. One such phenomena is that of gender, or more specifically the bending of gender by which players assume characters of the opposite gender. Although a common practice in video games like World of Warcraft, its motivations have yet to receive adequately scholarly attention. The present study seeks to explore the process of gender selection in the massive online game World of Warcraft through qualitative methods utilizing interviews, texts, and field notes. The data is then analyzed using Kellner's (2003) methods of critical analysis of media and Langian's (1975) work on thematization.
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Gabrielsson, Andree. "The Changing Social Experience in World of Warcraft : Social Affordances in World of Warcraft and their impact on the Social Gaming Experience." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16499.

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Design philosophies in MMOs seem to have seen a shift in recent years. What used to be designs for social dependencies and challenging content seems to have become designs for social independence and casual play. This has not gone by unnoticed by communities of players that have gradually increased in size, hoping to find regression in design philosophies for their favorite games. This study combines the social component of Yee’s (2006) model for motivations for online play with Bradner’s (2001) concept of social affordances, and quantitative surveys with qualitative interviews in order to examine how the social player experience in World of Warcraft has changed in relation to changes made to the game. Some of the findings are that the incentives and necessity for socializing with strangers in the game has generally diminished as a consequence of changes made in the game that focus on practical efficiency. External factors that seems to have played a role in these results are age, technological contexts and life contexts of the respondents.
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Feng, Jihan. "From role play to behavior: How cultural background influences Western and Eastern MMOG players in world of warcraft." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52249.

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Researchers have been studying virtual world culture for decades. However, little attention has been devoted to the intersection of virtual world culture and real world culture. Even less attention has been given to the study of comparing players' different virtual world game behaviors that have been influenced by their own real world cultural background. In this paper, I specifically focus on identifying the differences among American, Chinese, and Taiwanese cultures and the unique aspects of players with distinct cultural backgrounds that alter the atmosphere of the game. This is a mixed-method ﾓtrans ludicﾔ? study across three game servers that included participant observation, interviews, and surveys. The result of this study show that real world culture influences virtual world culture. Players in different countries bring real life experiences to the game and form their own emergent sub-cultures and sub-rules under the larger structure of the designated game rules and social conventions. When players immigrate from their original server to other countries' servers, initially they tend to find people from the same country to play with and follow their old social conventions, which are the sub-rules they create in their old servers, rather than play with the local players and adapt to new customs. However, over time, players develop hybrid cultures that adopt features from both the old cultures. This study also demonstrates that emergent behaviors are likely to occur when players face problems or difficult challenges.
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Watts, Melissa. "Avatar Self-Identification, Self-Esteem, and Perceived Social Capital in the Real World: A Study of World of Warcraft Players and their Avatars." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6155.

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This study explored the relationship between people who play massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs) and their avatars, as well as the impact on players’ self-esteem and perceived social capital in the real world. To examine these influences of online video gameplay, this research investigated gamers who play the popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft (WoW). This study employed an online survey made available on Reddit, a widely-used news, entertainment, and social-networking website, in which all the content is user-generated. The research questionnaire was intended to reveal the bond between MMORPG players and their avatars; the study examined how this relationship could influence MMORPG players’ confidence in themselves and advance their network of relationships in the real world. The strength of the WoW players’ identification with their avatar did have some impact on their self-esteem in the real world; however, there was no significant relationship between avatar self-identification and perceived social capital in the real world. Additionally, this research did reveal a substantial correlation between self-esteem and perceived social capital in the real world.
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James, Whitehead. World of Warcraft programming: A guide and reference for creating WoW addons. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Technology Pub., 2008.

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James, Whitehead. World of Warcraft programming: A guide and reference for creating WoW addons. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Technology Pub., 2008.

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James, Whitehead. World of Warcraft programming: A guide and reference for creating WoW addons. 2nd ed. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Pub., 2010.

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Ludo, Lullabi, and Hope Sandra, eds. World of warcraft. La Jolla, CA: WildStorm Productions, 2008.

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Louise, Simonson, Bowden Mike, Buran Jon, and Mhan Pop, eds. World of warcraft. La Jolla, Calif: WildStorm Productions, 2010.

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Knaak, Richard A. World of warcraft: Wolfheart. New York: Gallery Books, 2011.

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Gilbert, Dan. Hacking World of warcraft? Indianapolis: Wiley Technology Pub., 2007.

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Ludo, Lullabi, Washington Tony, and Abbott Wes, eds. World of warcraft: Ashbringer. La Jolla, CA: Wildstorm, 2009.

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(Firm), BradyGames. World of Warcraft atlas. [München]: Markt + Technik, 2006.

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Entertainment, Blizzard. World of warcraft game manual. Irvine, CA: Blizzard, 2004.

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Oliveira, Thaiane, Reynaldo Gonçalves, Alessandra Maia, Julia Silveira, and Simone Evangelista. "Sexism and the Wow Girl: A Study of Perceptions of Women in World of Warcraft." In Feminism in Play, 143–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90539-6_9.

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Poor, G. Michael, Thomas J. Donahue, Martez E. Mott, Guy W. Zimmerman, and Laura Marie Leventhal. "Access-a-WoW: Building an Enhanced World of WarcraftTM UI for Persons with Low Visual Acuity." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 352–61. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21663-3_38.

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Bainbridge, William Sims. "World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade." In Springer Series in Immersive Environments, 149–66. London: Springer London, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-904-8_9.

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Wong, Nelson, Anthony Tang, Ian Livingston, Carl Gutwin, and Regan Mandryk. "Character Sharing in World of Warcraft." In ECSCW 2009, 343–62. London: Springer London, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-854-4_20.

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Neuenhausen, Benedikta. "L2P. Spielstrukturen in World of Warcraft." In Kinderkultur(en), 115–27. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92776-3_8.

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Barnett, Jane, Mark Coulson, and Nigel Foreman. "Examining Player Anger in World of Warcraft." In Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual, 147–60. London: Springer London, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-825-4_12.

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Reale, Steven. "Barriers to Listening in World of Warcraft." In Music in the Role-Playing Game, 197–218. New York ; London : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge music and screen media series: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351253208-13.

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Bainbridge, William Sims. "Alienation and Assimilation in a Warcraft World." In Virtual Sociocultural Convergence, 237–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33020-4_11.

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Heritage, Frazer. "Gendered Character Speech in World of Warcraft." In Language, Gender and Videogames, 183–218. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74398-7_7.

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Sellers-Young, Barbara, Rosina McCutcheon, and Jonathan Osborn. "Narrating and Negotiating Identity in World of Warcraft." In Narrative in Performance, 149–64. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-352-00417-5_9.

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Garcia, Janet. "World of Warcraft." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Computer Animation Festival. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2019001.2019085.

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Aguilar, Kelly. "World of Warcraft." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Computer Animation Festival. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2503541.2503636.

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Samia, Matt, and Scott Abeyta. "World of Warcraft." In the ACM SIGGRAPH 05 electronic art and animation catalog. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1086057.1086167.

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Unknown. "World of WarCraft." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 computer animation festival. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1281740.1281873.

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Blake, Angela. "World of WarCraft." In SIGGRAPH '15: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2745234.2746926.

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Horn, Brian, Taka Yasuda, David Satchwell, Chris Thunig, Fabio Zungrone, and Robert Brooks. "World of Warcraft." In SIGGRAPH '20: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3368827.3388448.

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Messenger, Marc, Kevin Vanderjagt, David Stephens, and Fabio Zungrone. "@World of Warcraft." In SIGGRAPH '21: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3446562.3457945.

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Huggins, Harley. "World of Warcraft teaser." In the 29th International Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2931127.2931309.

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Nardi, Bonnie. "Liminoid play in World of Warcraft." In VII Brazilian symposium. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1298023.1298078.

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Kurniawan, Sri H. "Intergenerational Learning through World of Warcraft." In 2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/digitel.2008.8.

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Gregory, Clairellyn. Who Gender-Bends and Why? A Qualitative Study of World of Warcraft. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.421.

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