Introduction
Discord is an online chat client application utilised by users to connect with online gaming communities. Over nine-hundred million messages are sent per day through the application, and it has over fifty-six million monthly users (Discord, n.d.). Discord is a platform which has aided in the formation of new gaming communities online. Discord has helped gamers to build new communities by making it easy to connect with other communities and users and having a simple to use chat client.
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Category: Communities and Online Gaming
The focus of this stream is on online games and the role of community within those games.
INTRODUCTION
Throughout the generations that has passed in this beautiful world we call ‘Earth’, the diversity of human races and religions is what makes our planet unique amongst the other in our solar system. For a diversified place such as New York City of America, you can barely walk 5 steps without encountering people of every skin color. Realistically, no race is either superior or inferior to another, all races are equal. Even in the Bible it is written, “So God created mankind in Read more [...]
Community is a very ubiquitous
concept that many interact with on a day to day basis, however many fail to fully
understand it. Many confuse community with the similar idea of a network
because of how these two ideas interact with one another. There are many places
to see communities and networks interact but non is more apparent than online
video games such as World of Warcraft. Online games are a very complex media and
often demand a lot from their players in order for them to achieve success.
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ABSTRACT
Toxicity in
competitive online gaming is primarily a result of the anonymity of the
internet and the rising stakes of competitive online gaming and can be solved
by nullifying these causes. The way games handle toxicity can drastically
change what their community accepts as normal. Rising stakes lead to some games
having more ‘weight’ and thus, more pressure and toxicity builds off of that.
Toxicity can also build from anonymity and having the freedom to say what you
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Over the past decade, the video game community has come under scrutiny for the promotion of violent games and indecent acts. They have been attributed as the linking causality of atrocious mass shootings, cyber bullying and more. By examining the complexities of video game development and genre and using frameworks such as Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics with a new fourth addition of nurture, the communities can be recognised as a force of good if fostered correctly by a game’s developers. Read more [...]
ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to discuss about how MMOGs which is the genre of games played within a community can be beneficial concerning teenagers and young adults. Researched has been made by reading scholarly articles about various subjects on video-games. Escapism and immersion, the learning outcomes, the psychological well-being and last but not least, E-sports are the main focus to be discussed about how MMOG types of games more specifically MMORPG and MOBA are impacting positively Read more [...]
Online
gaming is where people, connected over the internet participate in a competitive
or collaborative environment to achieve a task set by a game, often enhanced
with verbal and/or visual communication (Maher, 2016). Although, the online gaming
community is not restricted to the online collaboration of multi-player games, it
also includes individuals who play single player games who interact over online
platforms such as social media (Mohd Affendi, 2008). Online gaming can be considered a
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate
the unique experience the streaming platform Twitch.tv offers its communities
through its ‘co-experience’ and social interactions, and how these communities
are shifting negative societal perception of digital games. With Twitch.tv being
one of the preferred platforms of this generation, this paper will explore how
the streaming website cultivates its communities and captivates users through
its multifaceted interface. For the
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Online Gaming: On a Quest for Escapism from RealityDownload
Abstract
Online gaming has long been in the list of
controversial topics that have sparked public’s interests but on the negative
side. Pertaining to this, the gaming community is also taking the blame of
being a bad influence on teenage gamers. Based on research, this conference paper aims
to demonstrate a pragmatic approach to the methods online gaming and its
community has been arguably beneficial to teenagers who seek an escape Read more [...]