TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pearce,Celia
AU  - Boellstorff,Tom
AU  - Nardi,Bonnie A.
TI  - Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262259125
AV  - GV1469.17.S63P42 200 
U1  - 794.8/1 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Video games-Social aspects
KW  - Fantasy games-Social aspects
KW  - Role playing-Social aspects
KW  - Shared virtual environments-Social aspects
KW  - Communities
KW  - Community life
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3339058
ER  -