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Social and Political Identity Construction in Virtual Communities: Evidence from Analysis of Social and Political Practices (MMORPG World of Warcraft Game Experience)

Student: Slavgorodskii-kazanets Timur

Supervisor: Anastasia Poretskova

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

In massive multiplayer online computer games people interact with each other and have joyful experience in unusual settings. However, in such games these people obtain new in-game political and social identity that depends on their in-game social interactions and narratives. Developers construct players' identities through the plot and in-game social and political practices, and this work tries to figure out how it happens with complex qualitative methods in the frame of virtual ethnography.

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