{"id":387,"date":"2011-06-27T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2011-06-27T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:00:04","slug":"the-sociology-of-world-of-warcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/the-sociology-of-world-of-warcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sociology of World of Warcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/062611_1307_thesociolog11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/05\/sociologists-invade-world-of-warcraft-and-see-humanitys-future.ars\">Arstechnica<\/a> reported on a publication called <em>Journal of Virtual Worlds Research <\/em>that is focused on understanding the sociology of digital worlds such as <em>World of Warcraft <\/em>and <em>Second Life.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few interesting things from <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/05\/sociologists-invade-world-of-warcraft-and-see-humanitys-future.ars\">Arstechnica&#8217;s<\/a> report include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intimacy formations in real and virtual worlds have striking similarities.<\/li>\n<li>The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant for further research in this field.<\/li>\n<li>The distinction between online and offline socialization isn&#8217;t always clear. Instead of choosing to play alone at home players often go to play games at certain cyber cafes where they know there&#8217;ll be able to meet all their real world friends.<\/li>\n<li>Certain cyber caf\u00e9s in China offer foot massages while gamers continue with their quests.<\/li>\n<li>World of Warcraft&#8217;s total population is twice as large as Scotland&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/05\/sociologists-invade-world-of-warcraft-and-see-humanitys-future.ars\">full article<\/a> to find out more about things such as a <em>Second Life <\/em>made for the blind and the link between President Obama and gaming ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/05\/sociologists-invade-world-of-warcraft-and-see-humanitys-future.ars\">Arstechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arstechnica reported on a publication called Journal of Virtual Worlds Research that is focused on understanding the sociology of digital worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. A few interesting things from Arstechnica&#8217;s report include: Intimacy formations in real and virtual worlds have striking similarities. The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}