Digital Culture, Play, and Identity : A World of Warcraft Reader (Hardcover)
暫譯: 數位文化、遊戲與身份：魔獸世界讀本（精裝版）

Hilde G. Corneliussen, Jill Walker Rettberg

Digital Culture, Play, and Identity : A World of Warcraft Reader (Hardcover)

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World of Warcraft is the world's most popular massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), with (as of January 2008) more than ten million active subscribers across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia who play the game an astonishing average of twenty hours a week. This book examines the complexity of World of Warcraft from a variety of perspectives, exploring the cultural and social implications of the proliferation of ever more complex digital gameworlds. The contributors have immersed themselves in the World of Warcraft universe, spending hundreds of hours as players (leading guilds and raids, exploring moneymaking possibilities in the in-game auction house, playing different factions, races, and classes), conducting interviews, and studying the game design—as created by Blizzard Entertainment, the game's developer, and as modified by player-created user interfaces. The analyses they offer are based on both the firsthand experience of being a resident of Azeroth and the data they have gathered and interpreted.

The contributors examine the ways that gameworlds reflect the real world—exploring such topics as World of Warcraft as a "capitalist fairytale" and the game's construction of gender; the cohesiveness of the gameworld in terms of geography, mythology, narrative, and the treatment of death as a temporary state; aspects of play, including "deviant strategies" perhaps not in line with the intentions of the designers; and character—both players' identification with their characters and the game's culture of naming characters. The varied perspectives of the contributors—who come from such fields as game studies, textual analysis, gender studies, and postcolonial studies—reflect the breadth and vitality of current interest in MMOGs.

Contributors:
Espen Aarseth, Hilde G. Corneliussen, Charlotte Hagström, Lisbeth Klastrup, Tanya Krzywinska, Jessica Langer, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Torill Elvira Mortensen, Jill Walker Rettberg, Scott Rettberg, T. L. Taylor, Ragnhild Tronstad.

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《魔獸世界》是全球最受歡迎的大型多人線上遊戲（MMOG），截至2008年1月，擁有超過一千萬名活躍訂閱者，遍及歐洲、北美、亞洲和澳洲，這些玩家平均每週遊玩驚人的二十小時。本書從多個角度探討《魔獸世界》的複雜性，探索日益複雜的數位遊戲世界的文化和社會意涵。貢獻者們深入《魔獸世界》宇宙，作為玩家花費數百小時（領導公會和團隊、探索遊戲內拍賣行的賺錢機會、玩不同的陣營、種族和職業），進行訪談，並研究遊戲設計——由遊戲開發商暴雪娛樂創造，並由玩家創建的使用者介面進行修改。他們所提供的分析基於作為艾澤拉斯居民的第一手經驗以及他們所收集和解釋的數據。

貢獻者們檢視遊戲世界如何反映現實世界——探討《魔獸世界》作為「資本主義童話」的主題以及遊戲對性別的建構；遊戲世界在地理、神話、敘事和對死亡的暫時性處理方面的凝聚力；遊玩方面，包括可能不符合設計者意圖的「偏差策略」；以及角色——玩家對其角色的認同和遊戲中角色命名的文化。來自遊戲研究、文本分析、性別研究和後殖民研究等領域的貢獻者們的多元觀點，反映了當前對MMOG的廣泛和活力的興趣。

貢獻者：
Espen Aarseth, Hilde G. Corneliussen, Charlotte Hagström, Lisbeth Klastrup, Tanya Krzywinska, Jessica Langer, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Torill Elvira Mortensen, Jill Walker Rettberg, Scott Rettberg, T. L. Taylor, Ragnhild Tronstad。

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