The 'white-eyed' player culture: Grief play and construction of deviance in MMORPGs

Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 Conference: Changing Views - Worlds in Play

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lin, Holin ^a   Sun, Chuen Tsai ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Grief play; Griefer culture; MMORPGs; Othering; Stigmatization

Indexed keywords

GAME RULES; GRIEF PLAY; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; MMORPGS; OTHERING; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; SOCIAL PROCESS; STIGMATIZATION;

EID: 84873395687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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