publication . Doctoral thesis . 2015

Acceleration and Information: Managing South Korean Online Gaming Culture

Rea, Stephen Campbell;
Open Access English
  • Published: 01 Jan 2015
  • Publisher: eScholarship, University of California
  • Country: United States
Abstract
This ethnography explores the practical experiences and institutional entanglements of online games, gaming, and gamers in contemporary South Korean culture and society. Korean online gaming culture is encountered at numerous sites and scales of experience, from the virtual worlds of online games, to the offline spaces where gaming happens, to societal practices and discourses around the management of online gaming and gamers backed by competing institutional interests. Online gaming is contextualized within the history of building Korea's high-speed, high-tech information society, a process known in Korea as “informatization.” Korean online gaming culture is ev...
Read more
Subjects
ACM Computing Classification System: ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING
free text keywords: Cultural anthropology, Asian studies, Information technology, digital culture, medicine, online games, South Korea, sports, temporality
Related Organizations
Download from
eScholarship - University of California
Doctoral thesis . 2015
Provider: eScholarship - University of California
Powered by OpenAIRE Research Graph
Any information missing or wrong?Report an Issue