Archives for July 2009

“Pushing the Borders: Player Participation and Game Culture” in J. Karaganis (ed.), Network_Netplay: Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007. [PDF]

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“Unruly Play, History Lessons, and a Call for Non-Dichotomous Models,” State of Play II, October 2004. Copy unavailable. Please refer to my book Play Between Worlds for most recent version of the argument.

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“Beyond Management: Considering Participatory Design and Governance in Player Culture”, First Monday, October 2006. [link to online journal]

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“Does WoW Change Everything?: How a PvP Server, Multinational Playerbase, and Surveillance Mod Scene Caused Me Pause,” Games & Culture, v. 1 n. 4, October 2006. [PDF] Note: An abbreviated version of this article (does not include age & nationality discussion) appears in in J. Walker and H. Corneliussen (eds.) Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: [...]

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“Playful Research and the Serious Study of Multiplayer Games.” A review of Torill Mortensen’s Pleasures of the Player: Flow and Control in Online Games. Norsk Medietidsskrift, ≈rg 12, Nr 4, 2005. Copy not available.

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