01618 a2200313 4500 1317652231 20250317111625.0 250312042014GB 3 eng 9781317652236 Taylor & Francis GBP 49.99 BB 01 eng JBCT thema JBCC thema JHB thema NH thema JFD bic JFC bic JHB bic H bic SOC052000 bisac 794.81 bisac Esther MacCallum-Stewart Online Games, Social Narratives 1 Oxford Routledge 20140613 208 p The study of online gaming is changing. It is no longer enough to analyse one type of online community in order to understand the plethora of players who take part in online worlds and the behaviours they exhibit. MacCallum-Stewart studies the different ways in which online games create social environments and how players choose to interpret these. These games vary from the immensely popular social networking games on Facebook such as Farmville to Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games to "Free to Play" online gaming and console communities such as players of Xbox Live and PS3 games. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of social gaming online, breaking down when games are social and what narrative devices make them so. This cross-disciplinary study will appeal to those interested in cyberculture, the evolution of gaming technology, and sociologies of media. 6176 6176