Amanda Cullen takes the page 99 test
Frankly, I was hoping that page 99 of my dissertation would capture the voices of one or more of my participants. Unfortunately, what I arrived at was the…
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Ergin Bulut on his book, A Precarious Game
Interview by Xiao Xe https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501746536/a-precarious-game/ Xiao Ke: It was a great pleasure to read about such a fun topic, executed in a rigorous way, …
The Server Souvenir: Taking Home Remnants of Virtual Worlds
“It’s amazing to think those little circuits that we can carry around were an entire world to us.” –Diana*, interviewee “We might say that this capacity of objects…
League of Legends: rituality, interactions and events
In a previous blog post, we mentioned the subcultures originated around the consumption of a particular product or brand. We also mentioned how some events or activities can…
Do We Inherit Abandoned Game Worlds?
When you’re playing an online game and it gets shut down, typically a message flashes on the screen that says something like: “You have been disconnected from the…