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DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Contexts, pleasures and preferences: girls playing computer games
In this paper, issues of girls and their gaming preferences are explored through observations of computer games sessions at an all-girl state school. What emerged is that preferen...
Diane Carr
DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Fictive affinities in Final Fantasy XI: complicit and critical play in fantastic nations.
Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...
William Huber
DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Liberal Sims?: Simulated Difference and the Commodity of Social Diversity
This paper outlines how representations of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity intersect with strategies of late capitalism in The Sims, arguably the most popular video game of ...
A. Brady Curlew
DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Playful Play with Games: Linking Level Editing to Learning in Art and Design
The title ‘Playful Play with Games’ refers to the possibility of creative involvement with games by altering their structure in a playful way. The focus of this paper is on mo...
Maia Engeli
DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Virtually Visual: The effects of visual technologies on online identification
Identification is regarded as an important aspect of beneficial online interaction. In addition to providing the individual with potential psychological benefits, identification w...
Jennifer Martin
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