Strangers and friends: collaborative play in world of warcraft

By Bonnie A. Nardi. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2006

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The sociomateriality of organisational life: considering technology in management research (2010, background): “In the consumer sector, participation in synthetic worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft is estimated in the tens of millions (Hof, 2006; Nardi and Harris, 2006), while synthetic worlds are also emerging as interesting sites of experimentation among scientists, educators, and software…”
Body and mind: a study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds (2009, background): “Recent work in the CHI community has investigated the social and cultural dynamics of virtual worlds [3] [4] [11], with some focus on avatars [see again 9].”
Rise of the expert amateur: DIY projects, communities, and cultures (2010, background): “RELATED WORK An extensive body of work explores online communities in the domains of gaming (World of Warcraft), compiling objective knowledge (Wikipdia), open source software, and social networking (Facebook, MySpace), to name a few [3,13,24,28].”
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft (2007, background): “These games are collaborative by design [23]: players often have to band together to accomplish the game’s objectives, and trading items and information is essential to a player’s advancement [17].”