Archives for July, 2020 - Page 6
Participant Observation: The Economy of EVE Online
EVE Online is a space-based persistent world that was released in 2003, and since then has continued to be updated. While I played, there were on average 25,000 other...
Participant Observation in Runescape
The virtual world that I chose to explore as my field for participant observation was the famous, long-standing Runescape. Runescape is a medieval fantasy style massive multiplayer online role-playing...
Musical Musings & Making Connections in Sky
When considering taking time to hang out, explore and learn about and from a virtual world – it is more than fair to say I was more than a...
Non-Verbal Communication during High-Stress Gaming in Sky
For my virtual ethnography, I chose the game Sky. Sky is a game in which the player explores various levels using a cape and “winged light” that allows the...
Communities in Roblox
The virtual world I conducted my participant observation on was Roblox. Roblox can be described as an immersive user-generated online gaming platform and game creating system. On this platform...
Doing Power and hierarchies in Habbo: Place-making and Membership
World documents (picture included) : Reed- Hobbo field notes Text Format: Reed Lu Week 3 Participant Observation Doing Power and hierarchies in Habbo: Place-making and Membership Introduction...
Community Building on Poptropica
During elementary and school, I religiously played Poptropica. My goal was to complete all the islands: Spy Island, 24 Carrot Island, Reality TV Island, Early Poptropica. I never completed...
Communication and Self-Expression in Sky: Children of the Light
Sky: Children of the Light, a game for iPhone and iPad, takes place in a world in which the stars have fallen from their constellations, leading to some collapse...
Communication and Relationships in Sky: Children of the Light
Sky: Children of the Light is a mobile game in which players explore a kingdom in order to return lost stars to their constellations. Throughout the game, players fly...
Participant Observation – Second Life
Currently I believe that there is an issue for me technologically and my computer keeps telling me I can’t access the games because of potential malware (I’m not a...