World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft
Cooperation without Mobilization
Chapter 4 argues that political organization and protest in the gaming site World of Warcraft is “foiled” for a number of reasons. Central among these reasons is that the need to negotiate the in-game space creates smaller groups with boundaries that are not based on cleavages normally observed outside the game, such as nationalities, ethnicities, sex, race, or age. Instead, the boundaries of these smaller groups are created by shared value systems. Once people exist in these “bubbles” of shared values, they are less likely to engage in political activism.
Keywords: World of Warcraft, MMORPG, politics, guilds, group dynamics, cooperation, norms, gaming, online community
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
