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A theoretical framework for online game society: the case of League of Legends

A theoretical framework for online game society: the case of League of Legends
A theoretical framework for online game society: the case of League of Legends
League of Legends is the largest online game in the world, but is under-represented in video game studies. Its community is large and multi-sited, but known for competitive and toxic behaviours. This paper presents a qualitative research project into video game sociology, using League of Legends as the research site. It draws on Bourdieu's established social theory alongside empirical ethnography and remediates it, creating a theoretical framework which models the underlying social structure of wider virtual worlds and online communities in a flexible, adaptable way.
355-357
Rimington, Elzabi
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Weal, Mark
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Leonard, Pauline
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Rimington, Elzabi
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Weal, Mark
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Leonard, Pauline
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Rimington, Elzabi, Weal, Mark and Leonard, Pauline (2016) A theoretical framework for online game society: the case of League of Legends. WebSci '16 ACM Web Science Conference, , Hannover, Germany. 22 - 25 May 2016. pp. 355-357 . (doi:10.1145/2908131.2908194).

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League of Legends is the largest online game in the world, but is under-represented in video game studies. Its community is large and multi-sited, but known for competitive and toxic behaviours. This paper presents a qualitative research project into video game sociology, using League of Legends as the research site. It draws on Bourdieu's established social theory alongside empirical ethnography and remediates it, creating a theoretical framework which models the underlying social structure of wider virtual worlds and online communities in a flexible, adaptable way.

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Published date: 31 May 2016
Venue - Dates: WebSci '16 ACM Web Science Conference, , Hannover, Germany, 2016-05-22 - 2016-05-25
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 396230
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/396230
PURE UUID: 19b02ff9-407c-4ab3-b559-9de663bb47ae
ORCID for Mark Weal: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6251-8786
ORCID for Pauline Leonard: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8112-0631

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Date deposited: 06 Jun 2016 10:40
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48

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Author: Elzabi Rimington
Author: Mark Weal ORCID iD
Author: Pauline Leonard ORCID iD

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