Digital Culture, Play, and Identity

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Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft® Reader (World of Warcraft Reader)

World of Warcraft is the world's most popular massively multiplayer
online game (MMOG), with (as of March 2007) more than eight million active
subscribers across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, who play the game an
astonishing average of twenty hours a week. Get Digital Culture, Play, and Identity computer books for free.
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World of Warcraft from a variety of perspectives, exploring the cultural and social
implications of the proliferation of ever more complex digital gameworlds. The
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