Potansiyel Bir Karşı-Hegemonya Alanı Oluşturma Aracı Olarak Devasa Çok Oyunculu Çevrimiçi Oyunlar

Abstract

Massively Multiplayer Online Games as a Potential Means of Building Counter-Hegemonic SpheresThis study aims to reveal whether massive multi-player online games (MMOG) are effective in creating a new field of resistance and counter-hegemony while questioning whether games make players passive and apolitical individuals. To this end, whether online games encourage players to organize, develop their cultural practices, create their own spaces of resistance and counter-hegemony, and allows them to take a specific political stance were analyzed through those who played MMOG in the study. As a method, an online questionnaire is conducted with 493 people, and the data obtained were evaluated under four factors. According to the findings of the statistical analysis, MMOGs encourage players (1) to develop their cultural practices (identification with the group); (2) to coexist within game groups based on rules (identification with the game); (3) to organize among themselves (social interaction), (4) to show critical, intellectual, strategic attitudes and behaviors;(5) to demonstrate their social, cultural and political stance (interaction between the game and the world); and lastly, through active virtual in-game communities, (6) to encourage the players as active subjects to engage in movements aimed at creating a new resistance and counter-hegemony (offline activism). However, players who play MMOGs do not engage in any activity unless there is an