Investigating the Concept of Consumers as Producers in Virtual Worlds: Looking through Social, Technical, Economic, and Legal Lenses

Kienle, Holger M.; Lober, Andreas; Vasiliu, Crina; Müller, Hausi A.

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“…Legal aspects provide only a single viewpoint, or "lense," which needs to be augmented with other ones. In previous work we have proposed four lenses-social, technical, economic, and legalwhich can be used to conduct a complementary analysis of a certain concept [34] [35]. This approach has been exercised on user-generated content in the context of virtual worlds [34], but this analysis incidentally applies to web systems too since they are more and more incorporating features found in virtual worlds.…”

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Legal aspects of web systems

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Müller

2013

2013 15th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE)

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The web offers a ubiquitous platform for commercial and information-sharing activities, which are realized by a broad spectrum of web systems. Not surprisingly, triggered by lawsuits, many legal aspects impacting web systems have emerged over time and they should be a concern for web systems operators, users and researchers. This paper identifies prominent legal issues relating to web systems access, content, design and code: copyright, patents, contracts, trespass, and others. Based on the identified issues we offer a number of observations on how the legal landscape has been shifting, on the role of contracts, and on the law's impact on case study research.

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Legal aspects of web systems

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2013

2013 15th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE)

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“…The much anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic published by BioWare boasted the creation of over one million new accounts within the first 3 days of the games release in December 2011 (Electronic Arts, 2011), while NCsoft's Guild Wars 2, sequel to the popular MMO Guild Wars was very well received upon its release in the latter half of 2012, being touted as one of the best games of the year (Peckham, 2012). Not surprisingly, academics have responded with research exploring the cultural, economic, and psychological dimensions of this striking social uptake of new digital technologies (e.g., Ahmad, Borbora, Shen, Srivastava, & Williams, 2011;Allison, Wahlde, Shockley, & Gabbard, 2006;Cass, 1998;Collister, 2008;Corneliussen & Rettberg, 2008;Kienle, Lober, Vasiliu, & Müller, 2010;Moberly, 2010;Pace, Houssian, & McArthur, 2009;Schultze, 2010;Williams, Kennedy, & Moore, 2011). Given its endurance over the last 10 years, World of Warcraft remains a focus of scholarly discussion due to both its popularity and its accessibility.…”

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The Phenomenology of the “Other” in Computer Game Worlds

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2015

Games and Culture

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This article discusses the application of a phenomenological framework to inform research in computer game worlds like massively multiplayer online games. Based on the phenomenological sociology of Alfred Schutz, this article examines some of the key problems facing researchers in online spaces, such as the absence of the corporeal ''Other.'' In discussing these issues using the vocabulary of Schutz's phenomenology, this article attempts to clarify some key concepts to contribute to a useful framework for conducting social research in computer game worlds. This article examines how the transcendent nature of online social experiences in game environments like World of Warcraft contribute to a distinct context of meaning. An understanding of the ways in which social game worlds can be constituted as sites of unique experience may be useful for researchers wishing to examine these spaces from ethnographic or similar perspectives.

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Investigating the Concept of Consumers as Producers in Virtual Worlds: Looking through Social, Technical, Economic, and Legal Lenses

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