TY  - GEN
AB  - "In Play Between Worlds, T.L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps - as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and alienating activity indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), in which thousands of players participate in a virtual game world in real time, are in fact actively designed for sociability. Games like the popular EverQuest, she argues, are fundamentally social spaces."--Jacket.
AU  - Taylor, T. L.
CN  - GV1469.17.S63
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
DA  - ©2006.
ID  - 1387746
KW  - Internet games
KW  - Fantasy games
KW  - Role playing
KW  - GAME STUDIES/Online Games
KW  - GAME STUDIES/Games & Culture
KW  - CULTURAL STUDIES/Identity Politics
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5418.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy
LK  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
N2  - "In Play Between Worlds, T.L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps - as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and alienating activity indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), in which thousands of players participate in a virtual game world in real time, are in fact actively designed for sociability. Games like the popular EverQuest, she argues, are fundamentally social spaces."--Jacket.
PB  - MIT Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - ©2006.
SN  - 9780262284714
SN  - 0262284715
SN  - 1423774574
SN  - 9781423774570
T1  - Play between worlds :exploring online game culture /
TI  - Play between worlds :exploring online game culture /
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UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -