World of Warcraft as a ludic cyborg

Authors:
Victoria McArthur
Affiliations:
York University, Toronto, Ontario
Venue:
Future Play '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share
Year:
2008

Citing 4
Cited 0

"Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Death matters: understanding gameworld experiences

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
Strangers and friends: collaborative play in world of warcraft

CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Understanding social interaction in world of warcraft

Proceedings of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper describes World of Warcraft as a ludic cyborg --- an entity that exists for play and depends on both artificial and organic components to survive. We argue that the popularity of the game arose due to the balance between the types of socialization it promotes and in-game literacies acquired by players on PvP servers.