{"id":110,"date":"2020-04-25T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/?p=110"},"modified":"2020-04-27T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T08:50:28","slug":"more-than-a-game-levelling-up-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/2020\/04\/25\/more-than-a-game-levelling-up-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a game: Levelling up relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"\nCraig Lennard\n\n\n\nKeywords: Virtual, Community, Multiplayer, Network, Games\n\n\n\nAbstract:\n\n\n\nOnline gaming is not generally associated with strengthening relationships and developing communities. However, patterns are emerging in research into the field of Online Multiplayer Games (OMG's), suggesting they provide a fertile ground for cultivating relationships and bridging pockets of society separated by age, race, and socioeconomic factors. Games as a focal point attract people providing them with <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/2020\/04\/25\/more-than-a-game-levelling-up-relationships\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Lennard Keywords: Virtual, Community, Multiplayer, Network, Games Abstract: Online gaming is not generally associated with strengthening relationships and developing communities. However, patterns are emerging in research into the field of Online Multiplayer Games (OMG&#8217;s), suggesting they provide a fertile ground for cultivating relationships and bridging pockets of society separated by age, race, and socioeconomic factors. Games as a focal point attract people providing them with Read more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,11,8,10,9],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-community","tag-games","tag-multiplayer","tag-network","tag-virtual"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2020OUA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}