New Perspectives on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming Multiplayer 2 [Hardcover]

Expanding on the work in the volume Multiplayer, this new book explores several other areas related to social gaming in detail. The aim is to go beyond a typical edited book concept, and offer a very concise volume with several focal points that are most relevant for the current debate about multiplayer games, both in academia and society. As a result, the volume offers the latest research findings on online gaming, social forms of gaming, identification, gender issues and games for change, primarily applying a social-scientific approach.

1. Multiplayer and beyond: Witnessing the evolution of gaming

[Thorsten Quandt & Rachel Kowert]

2. From social play to social games and back: The emergence and development of social network games

[Frans M?yr?, Jaakko Sternos, Janne Paavilainen, & Annakaisa Kultima]

3. Identifying social forms of flow in multi-user games

[Joceran Borderie & Nicolas Michinov]

4. Envisioning the other: A grounded exploration of social roles in digital game play

[Jasmien Vervaeke, Frederik De Grove, & Jan Van Looy]

5. Multiplayer games as the ultimate communication lab and incubator: A multi-media Study

[John L. Sherry, Andy Boyan, Kendra Knight, Cherylann Edwards, & Qi Hao]

6. The MMORPG designers journey: Casualization and its consequences for social interactions

[Daniel Pietschmann, Benny Liebold, & Georg Valtin]

7. Multiplayer features and game success

[Andr? Marchand]

8. Sexism in video games and the gaming community

[Jesse Fox & Wai Yen Tang]

9. Women are from FarmVille, Men are frlƒ/