'This Game Changed my Life' : Online Stories of 'Emersion' about Playing Video Games during Difficult Times in Life
| Autor: | Abuin, Sergio J. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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video games
videogames personal crises difficult times immersion netnography stories posts online offline uses and gratifications Persona 5 videojocs video jocs temps dificils immersió historia videojuegos video juegos crisis tiempos difíciles inmersión netnografia historias Cultural Studies Kulturstudier Communication Studies Kommunikationsvetenskap Media Studies Medievetenskap |
| Druh dokumentu: | Text |
| Popis: | This thesis aims to explore the video game medium in depth, to relate it to the stories foundon Internet communities about users’ gameplay experiences during burdensome moments inlife. To achieve that, the phenomena is explored through the lenses of Uses & Gratificationstheory by means of a netnography on the ‘/Persona 5’ official subReddit; interpreting, codingand analyzing all narratives that fit the criteria with the help of a proposed ‘USE’ system. Themodel is in charge of classifying the information into explicit displays of ‘Dissatisfaction’,‘Motivation’, ‘Immersion’ and ‘Emersion’. The resulting codification enabled the creation ofeight different types of reports among a sample of one-hundred threads, all in correlation withthe varied aspects of the game that act as categories. The data derived from the conclusions ofthis study shows that players are not motivated to use the video game for any other purposesthan mere entertainment. Yet, the immersive potential of the virtual world addressed theirdissatisfactions and made them emerge back to reality with, mostly, not-sought gratifications. Still, not all players were able to control their video game uses to regulate their emotions,further implying the importance to continue researching cases of media immersion toestablish guidelines of ethical design and appropriate production and consumption practices. |
| Databáze: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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