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The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us―And How They Don't
Nick Yee
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| #453702 in Books | imusti | 2014-01-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.94 x5.50l,.94 | File type: PDF | 264 pages | Yale University Press||27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.| Worth reading? Definitely.|By Kenneth D. Vandenberghe|I am a gamer who frequently participated in Yee's studies at the Daedalus Project and PARC Play On through highschool and college. I'd heard about some guy at some college doing some studies on gamers and thought that I might as well try to add my input. A few years back I remember getting a mass email from Yee saying that||
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Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet inhabitants of virtual worlds rarely achieve this liberty, game researcher Nick Yee contends. Though online games evoke freedom and escapism, Yee shows that virtual spaces perpetuate social norms and stereotypes from the offline world, transform play into labor, and inspire racial scapegoating and superstitious...
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