Paper Info
Title
Virtual postcards: multimodal stories of online play
Abstract
This paper documents the use of a multimodal data collection tool developed for research on Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). Addressing a central problem of qualitative research on MMOGs - how to document the activities of players' domestic, everyday/everynight play practices - we describe how the virtual 'travelogue' allows participants to share, and annotate, screenshots of their MMOG play. Based on our preliminary analysis of 69 travelogues, we explore how these texts function similar to travel postcards, as generic images of in-game events and environments that are personalized and narrativized through players' annotations. We also discuss two themes across the travelogues, (in)authenticity and individualization, that illuminate the ways players negotiate the standardizing effect of many MMOG play experiences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2212776.2212791
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
mmog play experience,qualitative research,virtual postcard,everynight play practice,generic image,online play,mmog play,central problem,multimodal data collection tool,multimodal story,massively multiplayer online games,in-game event,paper document,data collection
Data collection,World Wide Web,Computer science,Qualitative research,Multimedia,Negotiation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicholas Taylor1578.10
Victoria McArthur2486.83
Jennifer Jenson37011.77