The Functions of Role-Playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity - Softcover

Bowman, Sarah Lynne

 
9780786447107: The Functions of Role-Playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0786447109 ISBN 13: 9780786447107
Verlag: McFarland, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This study takes an analytical approach to the world of role-playing games, providing a theoretical framework for understanding their psychological and sociological functions. Sometimes dismissed as escapist and potentially dangerous, role-playing actually encourages creativity, self-awareness, group cohesion and "out-of-the-box" thinking. The book also offers a detailed participant-observer ethnography on role-playing games, featuring insightful interviews with 19 participants of table-top, live action and virtual games.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Lynne Bowman is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Richland College, Ashford University, and Brookhaven College. Her current research focus emphasizes character development and social dynamics in role-playing games. She lives in Round Rock, Texas.

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This study takes an analytical approach to the world of role-playing games, providing a theoretical framework for understanding their psychological and sociological functions. Sometimes dismissed as escapist and potentially dangerous, role-playing actually encourages creativity, self-awareness, group cohesion and "out-of-the-box" thinking. The book also offers a detailed participant-observer ethnography on role-playing games, featuring insightful interviews with 19 participants of table-top, live action and virtual games.

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This study takes an analytical approach to the world of role-playing games, providing a theoretical framework for understanding their psychological and sociological functions. Sometimes dismissed as escapist and potentially dangerous, role-playing actually encourages creativity, self-awareness, group cohesion and "out-of-the-box" thinking. The book also offers a detailed participant-observer ethnography on role-playing games, featuring insightful interviews with 19 participants of table-top, live action and virtual games.

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0786447109
ISBN 13 
9780786447107
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
218
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McFarland
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