{"id":64,"date":"2008-05-27T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rglas.dds.nl\/wordpress%20blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/27\/digital-culture-play-and-identity-a-world-of-warcraft-reader\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:49:45","slug":"digital-culture-play-and-identity-a-world-of-warcraft-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2008\/05\/27\/digital-culture-play-and-identity-a-world-of-warcraft-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Culture, Play, and Identity \u2013 A World of Warcraft Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN-GB\">I finally got my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11402\">Digital Culture, Play, and Identity \u2013 A World of Warcraft Reader<\/a>.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>And all I can say is that it turned out great! <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p> <\/o:p><br \/>For those who don\u2019t know it yet; it\u2019s an impressive collecting of articles from a collective of researchers who gathered to not only analyse World of Warcraft, but also to play it. It\u2019s a broad<\/span><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> but still in-depth look into the WoW phenomenon and, being the object of <a href=\"http:\/\/home.medewerker.uva.nl\/m.a.j.glas\/\">my <\/a>research too, I will certainly enjoy digging further into these articles. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p> <\/o:p><br \/>Even though I missed out on participating in the creation of the book (I joined The Truants too late, meh), I\u2019ve been playing with this crowd for quit some time now and they are not only a smart but also a fun bunch<\/span><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> (go Truants!) <\/span><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN-GB\">. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p> <\/o:p><br \/>A big \/cheer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genderandcomputing.no\/\">Hilde <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/jilltxt.net\/\">Jill <\/a>for this fine book. And \/hug <a href=\"http:\/\/torillsin.blogspot.com\/\">Torill <\/a>for keeping the Truants spirit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humlab.umu.se\/games2008\">alive<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/images\/products\/books\/0262033704-f30.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/images\/products\/books\/0262033704-f30.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got my copy of Digital Culture, Play, and Identity \u2013 A World of Warcraft Reader. And all I can say is that it turned out great! For those who don\u2019t know it yet; it\u2019s an impressive collecting of articles from a collective of researchers who gathered to not only analyse World of Warcraft, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2008\/05\/27\/digital-culture-play-and-identity-a-world-of-warcraft-reader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Culture, Play, and Identity \u2013 A World of Warcraft Reader&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}