Abstracts Archive

This paper explores the sequential trajectories of accounting practices for the failures faced in video game playing activities. It attends to how the accounts for the failures recharacterize what happened in the game and for which specific reasons. This study draws on ethnomethodology and conversat...

In order to interact properly, speakers need to understand a variety of written and oral information while considering the context in which they are produced. Thus they need to develop interactional skills. However, previous studies have proven that speakers with low levels of education do not posse...

This study explores: (1) how players perform collaboration in the virtual world with a "constrained set of possibilities afforded by the game" (Bennerstedt & Ivarsson 2010) through controlling the actions of their avatars, and  (2) how do competent players (creatively) utilize the limi...

Videogaming is a very popular activity and different studies have shown how players organize their gaming activities in physical presence or at a distance. More recently and with regard to the social role of videogaming, non-players and their practices came into the focus: do (and if so how do) non-...