Online Gaming in Context

Part I: Introduction 1. The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Gaming Part II: Production and Play 2. Player Production and Innovation in Online Games: Time for New Rules? 3. Conflict, Thought Communities and Textual Appropriation in MMORPGs 4. Thrift Players in a Twisted Game World? A Study of Private Online Game Servers 5. The Only (End)Game in Town: Designing for Retention in 'World of Warcraft' 6. The Boardgame Online: Simulating the Experience of Physical Games 7. Games in the Mobile Internet: Understanding Contextual Play in Flickr and Facebook 8. The Whereabouts of Play, or How the Magic Circle Helps Create Social Identities in Virtual Worlds 9. Framing the Game: Four Game-related Approaches to Goffman's Frames Part III: Communities and Communication 10. Identity-as-Place: The Construction of Game Refugees and Fictive Ethnicities 11. The Rise and Fall of 'Cardboard Tube Samurai': Kenneth Burke Identifying with the 'World of Warcraft' 12. Analyzing Player Communication in Multi-player Games 13. Recallin' Fagin: Linguistic Accents, Intertextuality and Othering in Narrative Offline and Online Video Games 14. 'Second Life' as a Digitally Mediated Third Place: Social Capital in Virtual World Communities 15. Representations of Race and Gender within the Gamespace of the MMO 'Everquest' 16. 'Wordslinger': Visualizing Physical Abuse in a Virtual Environment Part IV: Conclusion 17. It's Not Just a Game: Contemporary Challenges for Games Research and the Internet