Departing from the Virtual Community: A Discussion of the Ways and Means to Uncover Localized Order in Online Games from Basil Bernstein to Harvey Sacks

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Title: Departing from the Virtual Community: A Discussion of the Ways and Means to Uncover Localized Order in Online Games from Basil Bernstein to Harvey Sacks
Author/Creator: Grant, Eryn L
Description: This paper is part one of a three part study into the collective regulation processes of players in massive multiplayer online games (MMOG). Traditionally game playing has not been classed as problematic, however with introduction of new media technologies and new ways to play games, certain contexts have become obscure, namely the localised order of ‘playing online’ or how players manage and maintain order between each other as opposed to ‘following the rules’. Principally this paper will examine concepts of ‘virtual community’. These will be illustrated as particularly unhelpful when considering how people conduct themselves in these spaces. Thus, ‘virtual community’ will be seen as critical in implicating various online behaviours as superior to other online behaviours causing obscurity and blurring actions. This obscurity is grounded by strong associations in the virtual community as logic of practise in and of itself; behaviours that fall outside this category become common sense and as such are made invisible for investigation. This paper will draw upon the theories of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu to produce a distinction between online behaviours and ultimately make them visible for further investigation. In doing so this paper seeks to form a basis for future research where interaction in these spaces can be identified as belonging to a certain framework to inform the design of online games and applications more effectively.
Relation: International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society / Vol. 1, No. 6, pp.13-20
Relation: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.114
Year: 2006
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing
Subject: FoR 0807 (Library and Information Studies) | second life | virtual community | Basil Bernstien | Harvey Sacks | conversation analysis

Collection(s): Research Publications
Resource Type: Journal Article
Identifier: ISSN: 1832-3669
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