Changing the Rules: Social Architectures in Virtual Worlds

Yee, Nick

doi:10.1007/978-1-84882-825-4_17

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“…Chen argues that such a disastrous, collective consequence forces better collaboration and learning. Nick Yee has also made similar observations about the severe death penalty found in early versions of Everquest [26]. While the individual experience of death in recent games has been consistently inconsequential, we begin to see here the possibilities for the death mechanic to impact player experience in the social dimension.…”

Section: Prior Workmentioning

confidence: 66%

Death and dying in DayZ

Carter

Gibbs

Wadley

2013

Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Matters of Life and Death

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Avatar death is essentially universal in combat games, and ubiquitous in all other genres; death of a player's materialization in the game space is used to identify the player's failure and temporary removal from play. Yet the possibilities for creating interesting social dynamics and game play experiences through the design and configuration of death mechanics in games remains largely unexplored. In this paper we discuss the first person shooter game DayZ, which has configured death with an extreme level of consequentiality not found in other online first-personshooters. We examine the affect of this consequentiality on the player experience and attitudes towards death and dying in DayZ. On the basis of our research data, we find that the increased consequentiality of death in DayZ principally affects the game experience by intensifying social interactions, raising a player's perceived level of investment and invoking moral dilemmas.

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Section: Prior Workmentioning

confidence: 66%

Death and dying in DayZ

Carter

Gibbs

Wadley

2013

Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Matters of Life and Death

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“…Stokes (2012) observes that online social networks provide ample opportunities to manage impressions of the constructed self by others, persisting even after death. Researchers have also studied how social interactions in virtual worlds may shape personality, values and beliefs (Yee 2009) and the implications of virtual social networks as channels of information and emotional support (Hercheui 2011). While researchers have studied many online mutual help groups for individuals struggling with substance abuse, disability, suicidality, and mental disorders such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention deficit disorder as online versions of traditional support groups (Tichon and Shapiro 2003), the combination of online identity construction, community seeking and perpetration of active harm remains under-researched (Lawlor and Kirakowski 2017;Lanigan 2019).…”

Section: "The Kindness Of Strangers:" Shift In Focus From Medical Aud...mentioning

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“The Kindness of Strangers:” The Influence of Social Media on the Construction of Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another

Langer¹

2022

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA), termed a psychiatric "Factitious disorder by proxy", compels individuals to solicit unnecessary medical interventions or commit medical abuses on another, almost always a child in their care. A recent phenomenon is that of individuals with FDIA using social media such as blogs and online support groups to perpetuate such abuse, while garnering sympathy from others who access these sites.Through an examination of several recent high profile FDIA by Internet cases and using the concept of "neo-tribes' to identify the virtual communities of interest that form around these cases, new dimensions of FDIA appear. Fabrication of medical and social histories is facilitated and consolidated in the virtual sphere and readily enhanced through imagery and careful documentation. Betrayed communities experience exploitation and fraud. However, child neglect and child endangerment remain of concern, and identifying and investigating such claims across physical jurisdictions remain significant challenges for law enforcement.

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“…However, the coding of this type of activity lumps digital game playing into the same category with such varied pursuits as "playing cards," "working jigsaw puzzles," and "spinning dreidels" (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). Examples of the latter come from Nick Yee's Daedalus Project (Yee, 2004) and the PlayOn research group (Yee, 2006). Yee's research has produced rich and detailed data on how much time people spend playing Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (a.k.a.…”

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confidence: 99%

Time for play - An exploratory analysis of the changing consumption contexts of digital games

Deal¹

2008

eIJTUR

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Changing the Rules: Social Architectures in Virtual Worlds

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Death and dying in DayZ

Death and dying in DayZ

“The Kindness of Strangers:” The Influence of Social Media on the Construction of Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another

Time for play - An exploratory analysis of the changing consumption contexts of digital games

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