Can you marry me?: conceptualizing in-game marriage as intimacy-mediated collaboration

Authors:
Guo Zhang
Affiliations:
Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Year:
2014

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Abstract

This study conceptualizes in-game marriage as intimacy-mediated collaboration in Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs). Using Audition, a non-violent, non-fantasy dance battle MOG that mediates and facilitates couple-related collaborative behaviors, this paper investigates how collaboration and intimacy are intertwined in the game environment; it also explores three expressions of in-game marriage--marriage as partnership, marriage as play, and marriage as commitment.