Virtual Sociocultural Convergence

• Main Author: Bainbridge, William Sims (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Computer Science.; Computers and Society.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

This book explores the remarkable sociocultural convergence in multiplayer online games and other virtual worlds, through the unification of computer science, social science, and the humanities. The emergence of online media provides not only new methods for collecting social science data, but also...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Virtual Sociocultural Convergence
• Technological Determinism in Construction of an Online Society
• Convergence in Online Urban Environments
• Social Organizations in Online Virtual Worlds
• Autonomy within Rigid Rule-Based Systems
• Modeling Social Stratification in Online Games
• Linguistic Convergence and Divergence in Middle Earth
• Functional Equivalence across Virtual Cultures
• Individual Incentives for Investment in Gameworlds
• Divergence in the Fall of a Virtual Civilization
• Alienation and Assimilation in a Warcraft World.