[Air-L] fake play, foul, bending the rules

pmgazz pmgazz at gmx.co.uk
Mon Feb 2 03:20:44 PST 2009


This was also in my inbox, thought it might be of interest.

Jill Walker Rettberg wrote:
> Also check out Torill Mortensen's article "Humans Playing World of
> Warcraft: or Deviant Strategies?" in Digital Culture, Play, and
> Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader, MIT Press 2008 (edited by Hilde G.
> Corneliussen and myself)
> 
> Jill
> 
>> you might wanna look into T.L. Taylor's "play between worlds" or Mia
>> Consalvo "Cheating" - both are excellent accounts of how players bend
>> rules or "work around the system" for in-game or beyond game purposes.
>> in regards to "bending the game"  for achievement beyond game play see
>> also: Thomas Malaby's games and culture journal article "parlaying
>> value: capital in and beyond virtual worlds."
>>
>> hope that helps,
>> Silvia
>>
>>
>>>      Hi,
>>> did anyone look into
>>>    fake play, foul, bending the rules in online games? Salen and
>>> Zimmerman did, any other ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks for a hint.
>>> Mathias
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>>>  Salford University, School of Art & Design
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>>
>>
>> Silvia Lindtner
>> Ph.D. Student
>> University of California, Irvine
>> Department of Informatics
>> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lindtner
>>
>>
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