Playing the system: Using frame analysis to understand online play

Future Play 2010: Research, Play, Share - International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 9-16

  Stenros, Jaakko ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Frame analysis; Grief play; Online play; Play; Playing the players; Playing the system; Social games

Indexed keywords

FRAME ANALYSIS; GRIEF PLAY; ONLINE PLAY; PLAY; PLAYING THE PLAYERS; PLAYING THE SYSTEM; SOCIAL GAMES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79951527434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1920778.1920781     Document Type: Conference Paper

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