[Air-L] Online role-playing community study

[Christine Daviault]

I totally agree with Alejandro. I just read it and thought it was one  
of the most useful books I had read in a while from the perspective of  
outlining ones methodology and the dilemmas involved in being a  
researcher/participant.

Quoting Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com>:

> I stronlgy recommend you the book "Communities of play" by Celia Pearce.
> It is very interesting because she covered a community of online players
> that lost their world, and had to face an online migration.
> You can find more here:
>
> http://cpandfriends.com/
>
> Greetings,
>
> Alejandro Tortolini
> Science and technology journalist - Teacher
> Buenos Aires, Argentina.
>
>
>
>
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> 2010/12/7 Fabien Lorc'h <fabien.lorch at gmail.com>
>
>> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>>
>>  I am writing to you to present you my Master's dissertation subject .
>>
>> I am currently a student in the Master's program in Political Science at
>> the
>> University of Rennes 1 in France.
>>
>> For this Masters, I have decided to study an online role-playing community
>> :
>> The Renaissance Kingdoms: http://www.renaissancekingdoms.com/
>>
>>
>> The purpose of this study is to make a political analysis of this
>> community,
>> in a global meaning and thencommunity considered as a whole, through an
>> analysis of some data :
>>
>> - Register/Leave the game
>> - Identity (virtual or real, sociological analysis of the players (I am
>> planing to get a questionnaire for this)
>> - Internal regulation and discipline (almost all institutions between
>> characters having been planned by players)
>> - Independence of this community with national culture and history (the
>> game
>> is in an alternate history of the 15th century in Europe)
>>
>> The goal of this study is to think in an Aristotelian sense of Politics,
>> and
>> to see if there is a difference between the real world and the virtual
>> environment.
>> It is also to consider if the community has a clear particularity.
>>
>> I would love to receive your help on possible research lines that maybe I
>> have forgotten to study, or if you have ideas to concerning my approach.
>>
>> If you have books or articles on this, please don't hesitate to contact me
>> with suggestions.
>>
>> Thank you so much for your time and attention.
>>
>> --
>> Fabien Lorc'h
>>
>>
>> PS: Sorry in advance for my English that I am sure is catastrophic.
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