MMOG players' sense of place in virtual worlds

• Main Author: Alvarez, Katrina Paola Banas
• Other Authors: Vivian Chen
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication::Communication theories and models; Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154528
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This project explores how game players develop sense of place, the perception that a space has meaning (Bott, 2000; Hummon, 1992) as they interact with the virtual spaces of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Researchers have long proposed that people relate to mediated people, objects, and...