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Virtual Sociocultural Convergence




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Editore:

Springer

Pubblicazione: 05/2018
Edizione: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016





Trama

This book explores the remarkable sociocultural convergence in multiplayer online games and other virtual worlds, through the unification of computer science, social science, and the humanities.  The emergence of online media provides not only new methods for collecting social science data, but also contexts for developing theory and conducting education in the arts as well as technology.  Notably, role-playing games and virtual worlds naturally demonstrate many classical concepts about human behaviour, in ways that encourage innovative thinking.  The inspiration derives from the internationally shared values developed in a fifteen-year series of conferences on science and technology convergence.

The primary methodology is focused on sending avatars, representing classical social theorists or schools of thought, into online gameworlds that harmonize with, or challenge, their fundamental ideas, including technological determinism, urban sociology, group formation, freedom versus control, class stratification, linguistic variation, functional equivalence across cultures, behavioural psychology, civilization collapse, and ethnic pluralism.

Researchers and students in the social and behavioural sciences will benefit from the many diverse examples of how both qualitative and quantitative science of culture and society can be performed in online communities of many kinds, even as artists and gamers learn styles and skills they may apply in their own work and play.





Sommario

Introduction: Virtual Sociocultural Convergence.- Technological Determinism in Construction of an Online Society.- Convergence in Online Urban Environments.- Social Organizations in Online Virtual Worlds.- Autonomy within Rigid Rule-Based Systems.- Modeling Social Stratification in Online Games.- Linguistic Convergence and Divergence in Middle Earth.- Functional Equivalence across Virtual Cultures.- Individual Incentives for Investment in Gameworlds.- Divergence in the Fall of a Virtual Civilization.- Alienation and Assimilation in a Warcraft World.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9783319814247

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 559 gr
Formato: Brossura
Illustration Notes:VII, 260 p. 33 illus., 32 illus. in color.
Pagine Arabe: 260
Pagine Romane: vii


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