Virtual World of Computer Games: Reality or Illusion?

Use of virtual reality and digital technologies for studying folklore in Ukraine's educational institutions

“…the impact of computer reality (the fictional world of video games) on the real world of the recipient and their intersection with the subsequent formation of a superposition [7];…”

The Newest Virtualization Trends: From The Future To The Post-Future

“…However, these technologies have enormous underestimated potential. The potential of augmented reality technologies lies in the possibility of organizing a new type of social interaction (Samoylova, 2014).…”

Lessons from #GamerGate: Complicating virtual harm and reassessing frameworks for virtual harm assessment

“…While virtual spaces have the ability to shift the locus of human agency to allow for the transgression of corporeal boundaries to be experienced in very real ways (Bauman, 2003;McRae, 1996;Samoylova, 2014;Stone, 1995), the realism of this experience is not popularly acknowledged by those who frequent the virtual spaces that I analyse in this study. Instead, users tend to have an assumption that virtual experience is disembodied and because of this disembodiment, virtual interactions are popularly seen as less realistic.…”

“…As I have introduced, the magic circle does not have to be a concept strictly applied to a virtual space, provided offline spaces involve elements of gameplay where interactions take place within the context of alternate or "special" meanings and rules. From an analytical standpoint, this can have two consequences: first, these alternate rules and meanings can be positioned by theorists as superseding conventional rules, norms and meanings that govern social interactions, which, as game scholars point out, do not disappear within gamespaces or within the magic circle (Consalvo, 2012;Nieuwdorp, 2005;Samoylova, 2014;Zimmerman, 2012). This supersedence can take these more conventional yet still present systems of meaning outside of analytical purview, ultimately ignoring saliently meaningful contexts for communicative interactions that are still present within the magic circle.…”

“…Imagining technologically mediated spaces as places where participants communicate strictly voluntarily and where all agents are equal (see, for example, Lange, 2006;Samoylova, 2014) can silence histories of violence, harm and marginalization that are reflected virtually, as they are offline (Ashford, 2009;Chess & Shaw, 2015; (Kirman, Linehan, & Lawson, 2012), much in the same way as in offline social spaces.…”