Situating social games in the everyday

An Australian perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID13106491
AuthorsMichele Willson (0000-0002-3703-3020, Curtin University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume14
Issue1
Pages57-69
Publication date2015-05-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2383-9449 • E-ISSN: 2383-9449
PublisherWorld Association for Triple helix and Future strategy studies (PUBLISHER • KR)
DOI10.17477/jcea.2015.14.1.057
OpenAlexW2241477786
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

This paper explores some of the ways in which social games - games played with others through social network sites such as Facebook - are situated within the everyday. It argues that social games are more than just games; they perform a range of interactive and integrative functions across and within people's lives and therefore need to be investigated as such. Social games en-able spaces for and practices of creative expression, and identity management. They also form a mechanism through which relations can be enacted and maintained across and outside of the game environment. This argument requires the researcher to consider the panoply of ways in which people integrate social games within their lives and everyday practices. Part of a larger project, this paper explores some findings from an exploratory survey of Australian game play-ers about their management and integration of game play within the everyday with a particular focus on gender

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Everyday life · Identity (music · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Situated · Social group · Social identity theory · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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