Gamers never play alone: an interface-centred analysis of online video gaming

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• dc.contributor.author Scolari, Carlos Alberto, 1963-
• dc.contributor.author Pires de Sá, Fernanda
• dc.contributor.author Masanet, Maria-Jose
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-05-02T06:22:16Z
• dc.date.available 2023-05-02T06:22:16Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract Online gaming involves a complex and multidimensional set of practices. This article proposes understanding online video gaming based on an interface-centred approach that goes beyond the classic study of the “graphic user interface”. In this theoretical and analytical framework, the interface is considered the place where human, institutional and technological actors relate to each other and different processes are carried out. The article draws the data from empirical research with teens carried out in eight countries. It analyses the teenagers’ online playing experience as an interface, understood as a ‘network of actors’ that goes beyond the single video gaming device (console, PC, etc.). This work also presents a map of actors, relationships and processes of the online video gaming interface, paying particular attention to the tensions and critical issues that arise, from a perspective that, in further studies, could be expanded to other practices.
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• dc.identifier.citation Scolari CA, Pires F, Masanet MJ. Gamers never play alone: an interface-centred analysis of online video gaming. First Monday. 2022;27(1-3):[15 p.]. DOI: 10.5210/fm.v27i1.11623
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i1.11623
• dc.identifier.issn 1396-0466
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56644
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher University of Illinois
• dc.relation.ispartof First Monday. 2022;27(1-3):[15 p.].
• dc.rights © 2022 First Monday. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword video gaming
• dc.subject.keyword online video gaming
• dc.subject.keyword interface
• dc.subject.keyword actor
• dc.subject.keyword relationship
• dc.subject.keyword process
• dc.subject.keyword adolescents
• dc.title Gamers never play alone: an interface-centred analysis of online video gaming
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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