Abstract:Though not new to online gamers, griefing – an act of play intended to cause grief to game players – is understudied in LIS scholarship. We expand on the definition of griefing for library contexts by considering its deceptive elements and examining gamers’ attitudes in a gaming forum and an e-mail survey.Bien que connu des joueurs de jeux vidéo, le terme griefing, qui fait référence à un acte dont le but est de gêner ou d’emmerder les autres joueurs, est sous-étudié dans le domaine de la bibliothéconomie et d… Show more
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