Shameless plug: New book on Cheating (in videogames, that is)
Hi all, For a little light summer reading :), here's a shameless plug for my new book "Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames" which is now available from MIT Press (or Amazon, or etc). Here's the brief blurb and places to find it: "The widely varying experiences of players of digital games challenge the notions that there is only one correct way to play a game. Some players routinely use cheat codes, consult strategy guides, or buy and sell in-game accounts, while others consider any or all of these practices off limits. Meanwhile, the game industry works to constrain certain readings or activities and promote certain ways of playing. In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups), examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating, describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating, and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI. She develops the concept of "gaming capital" as a key way to understand individuals' interaction with games, information about games, the game industry, and other players." http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11153 http://www.amazon.com/Cheating-Advantage-Videogames-Mia-Consalvo/dp/02620336 58/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7568115-4449563?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182189765&sr=8-1 Enjoy! Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 213 RTV Building School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 740.597.1521
Sounds great - many congratulations! Kate
Mia, Many congratulations!! Joon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mia Consalvo" <consalvo@ohio.edu> To: "Games Research Network" <GAMESNETWORK@uta.fi>; <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>; "'BigNova'" <bignova@lists.roaringshrimp.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: [Air-l] Shameless plug: New book on Cheating (in videogames,that is)
Hi all,
For a little light summer reading :), here's a shameless plug for my new book "Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames" which is now available from MIT Press (or Amazon, or etc). Here's the brief blurb and places to find it:
"The widely varying experiences of players of digital games challenge the notions that there is only one correct way to play a game. Some players routinely use cheat codes, consult strategy guides, or buy and sell in-game accounts, while others consider any or all of these practices off limits. Meanwhile, the game industry works to constrain certain readings or activities and promote certain ways of playing. In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups), examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating, describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating, and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI. She develops the concept of "gaming capital" as a key way to understand individuals' interaction with games, information about games, the game industry, and other players."
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11153
http://www.amazon.com/Cheating-Advantage-Videogames-Mia-Consalvo/dp/02620336 58/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7568115-4449563?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182189765&sr=8-1
Enjoy!
Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 213 RTV Building School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701
740.597.1521
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Hi All, A friend of mine is finishing her thesis that is about social networking sites *nothing original there* but her work has an original a twist. As part of her research she is trying to compare the attitude of the same group of people in a completely closed social networking (closed to alumni of one specific University) against their attitude in a more open online community like LinkedIn. The reason she is using LinkedIn, is that her test group is more into business and career development so most of the alumni are already using LinkedIn. She is working with the 90-9-1 theory of participation and trying to see also how the theory of the "weak links" as generators of business and career opportunities works or not on both sites. I am helping her a little and while we have found extensive research on Facebook, we have found almost nothing on LinkedIn. Any recommendation? She is already sending her survey out but some specific bibliography on LinkedIn will be appreciate! Thanks, Sandra :)
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Sandra C. Bavasso Roffo