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May 2008
7 x 9, 304 pp., 24 illus.
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0-262-03370-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-03370-1

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Digital Culture, Play, and Identity
A World of Warcraft® Reader
Edited by Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg

Acknowledgmentsvii
Introduction: "Orc Professor LFG," or Researching in Azeroth
Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg
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Culture17
1Corporate Ideology in World of Warcraft
Scott Rettberg
19
2"Never Such Innocence Again"
War and Histories in World of Warcraft
Esther MacCallum-Stewart
39
3World of Warcraft as a Playground for Feminism
Hilde G. Corneliussen
63
4The Familiar and the Foreign
Playing (Post)Colonialism in World of Warcraft
Jessica Langer
87
World109
5A Hollow World
World of Warcraft as Spatial Practice
Espen Aarseth
111
6World Creation and Lore
World of Warcraft as Rich Text
Tanya Krzywinska
123
7What Makes World of Warcraft a World?
A Note on Death and Dying
Lisbeth Klastrup
143
8Quests in World of Warcraft
Deferral and Repetition
Jill Walker Rettberg
167
Play185
9Does World of Warcraft Change Everything?
How a PvP Server, Multinational Playerbase, and Surveillance Mod Scene Caused Me Pause
T. L. Taylor
187
10Humans Playing World of Warcraft: or Deviant Strategies?
Torill Elvira Mortensen
203
11Role-play vs. Gameplay
The Difficulties of Playing a Role in World of Warcraft
Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Justin Parsler
225
Identity247
12Character Identification in World of Warcraft
The Relationship between Capacity and Appearance
Ragnhild Tronstad
249
13Playing with Names
Gaming and Naming in World of Warcraft
Charlotte Hagström
265
Contributors
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Glossary291
Index
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