The WoW Factor: A Virtual Ethnographic Study of Sacred Things and Rituals in World of Warcraft.
This paper describes the method of complete participant observation-style virtual ethnography and how it was used to study sacred objects and rituals in the virtual world of Azeroth, from the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft (WoW). Drawing heavily from the wo...
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Gamevironments
Year: 2015, Volume: 2, Pages: 1-24 |
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social solidarity
B World of Warcraft B virtual ethnography B MMORPG |
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