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Computing, Social Activity, and Entertainment: A Field Study of a Game MUD

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1998, 1998

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 7

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Springer

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Are game and entertainment systems different than work-oriented systems? What drives the user's experience in a collaborative game? To answer these questions, we performed a participant-observation study of a combat MUD, a game similar to Dungeons and Dragons. Our interest is in how this social world is arranged and managed (rather than, for example, in how participants form or display individual identities). The study explores the social arrangements and activities that give meaning and structure to the participants. We found that conflict and cooperation were the dominant social activities on this MUD, much more so than sociability. The game's management played a critical function in maintaining and promoting these activities. Moreover, novelty and entertainment were important for the design of both the system features and the sociality itself.

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Muramatsu, Jack; Ackerman, Mark S. (1998): Computing, Social Activity, and Entertainment: A Field Study of a Game MUD. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 7. DOI: 10.1023/A:1008636204963. Springer. PISSN: 1573-7551. pp. 87-122

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Amusement, combat MUDs, CSCW, entertainment, games, MUDs, participant-observation, play, social worlds, system design

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10.1023/A:1008636204963

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008636204963
 https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3529

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JCSCW Vol. 07 (1998)

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