Identity Building among Role-Playing Gamers: Slaying Goblins in the Real World - Hardcover
by Heather Shay
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781666963526ISBN-10:1666963526UPC:9781666963526Book Category:Social Science, Games & ActivitiesBook Subcategory:Role Playing & FantasySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCET4HH8SJ
Identity Building among Role-Playing Gamers: Slaying Goblins in the Real World
Drawing on 19 months of participant-observation and 20 in-depth interviews with players, Heather Shay demonstrates that gamers derive significant social and psychological benefits from table-top role-playing games-not least in that players often feel the hobby makes them better people.
Playing these games allow players to depict themselves as good, moral actors through their in-game actions as...
Playing these games allow players to depict themselves as good, moral actors through their in-game actions as...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781666963526ISBN-10:1666963526UPC:9781666963526Book Category:Social Science, Games & ActivitiesBook Subcategory:Role Playing & FantasySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCET4HH8SJ
Heather Shay is assistant professor of sociology at South Carolina State University.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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