Pearce, Celia. <br/><br/>
Communities of Play :  Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (342 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Methods of Culture -- Play, Community, and History -- Acknowledgments -- I Play, Community, and Emergent Cultures -- 1 Communities of Play and the Global Playground -- 2 Virtual Worlds, Play Ecosystems, and the Ludisphere -- 3 Emergence in Cultures, Games, and Virtual Worlds -- 4 Reading, Writing, and Playing Cultures -- II The Uru Diaspora -- 5 An Imaginary Homeland -- 6 Identity as Place -- 7 The Inner Lives of Avatars -- 8 Communities and Cultures of Play -- 9 Patterns of Emergence -- 10 Productive Play -- 11 Porous Magic Circles and the Ludisphere -- 12 Emergence as Design Material -- III Playing Ethnography -- 13 Methodology -- IV The Social Construction of the Ethnographer -- 14 Being Artemesia -- V Beyond Uru -- 15 Coda: Uru Resurrection -- 16 Crafting Cultures -- 17 Global Playgrounds and the "Play Turn" In Culture -- Games and Virtual Worlds Cited -- References -- Index. 
<br/><br/> The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262259125 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Video games-Social aspects.<br/>Fantasy games-Social aspects.<br/>Role playing-Social aspects.<br/>Shared virtual environments-Social aspects.<br/>Communities.<br/>Community life.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1469.17.S63P42 200 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>794.8/1