The
article that I found was on Game and Culture journal. The article that I found
interesting was titled “Learning Real-Life Lessons From Online Games”. The article
tries to look deeper into the environments that games are exposed to and how
that actually affects real-life decisions and what type of reactions can be
sparked from them. The experiment was designed on an ethnographic investigation
using text-based gaming environments. The goal of the experiment was to analyze
the dynamics of technical acculturation and to see how self-expression was
effected by this type of interaction. The article continues to discuss the
consequences and how the effects of the consequences change the context of the
game for the individuals.
After reading this article I starting thinking about experiences
that I have had in online games. It’s pretty cool to see that if a game has
less interaction and less consequence for the party involved that they natural
do not expose themselves truly and can more likely than not act out in
different forms that are not socially normal. Where juxtaposed to this, you see
that an individual will become more amerced and take a role if the context is
relevant and influential to them. If there are relevant consequences to the
individual participating they are much more likely to have a higher
self-expression that is more true to who they are.
This is very interesting to see studies done on this
type of interaction because the online gaming world is directly affected all
the time by the environment that a person makes themself susceptible to. I have
witnessed new people come into a MMOPRG environment being very enthusiastic and
then they are faced with a bully who is overly aggressive and you can see that
person’s attitude change dramatically because of just one isolated incident. Now
that persons experience is ruined by someone else who is projecting their feelings
in that environment in a completely different way.
Lange, P. E. L. (2010). Learning
real-life lessons from online games. Game & Culture Journal. Retrieved
from http://gac.sagepub.com/content/6/1/17.abstract
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