02654nam a2200325 a 4500 ebr10223887 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070523s2008 maua sb 001 0 eng 2007020839 9780262033701 (hardcover : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)560650379 GV1469.27 .D55 2008eb 794.8 22 Digital culture, play, and identity [electronic resource] : a World of Warcraft reader / edited by Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008. viii, 304 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: "Orc professor LFG," or, Researching in Azeroth culture / Hilde Corneliussen and Jill Walker -- Corporate ideology in World of Warcraft / Scott Rettberg -- "Never such innocence again" : war and histories in World of Warcraft / Esther MacCallum-Stewart -- World of Warcraft as a playground for feminism / Hilde Corneliussen -- The familiar and the foreign : playing (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft world / Jessica Langer -- A hollow world : World of Warcaft as spatial practice / Espen Aarseth -- World creation and lore : World of Warcraft as rich text / Tanya Krzywinska -- What makes World of Warcraft a world? : a note on death and dying / Lisbeth Klastrup -- Quests in World of Warcraft : deferral and repetition play / Jill Walker -- Does World of Warcraft change everything? : how a PVP server, multinational playerbase, and surveillance mod scene caused me pause / T.L. Taylor -- Humans playing World of Warcraft, or, Deviant strategies? / Torill Elvira Mortensen -- Role-play vs gameplay : the difficulties of playing a role in World of Warcraft identity / Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Justin Parsler -- Character identification in World of Warcraft : the relationship between capacity and appearance / Ragnhild Tronstad -- Playing with names : gaming and naming in World of Warcraft / Charlotte Hagstr�om. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. World of Warcraft. Computer games Social aspects. Electronic books. local Corneliussen, Hilde. Rettberg, Jill Walker. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10223887 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 25326 25326