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Spring 2010
This study examined fairness in the online society of World of Warcraft(WoW), a society under constraint by game developers but dynamically affected by users. Because the society is voluntary, people have the ability to both effect major change on, and leave, that society at any time. Thus,...
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Friendship and Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities and Immigrant Care Workers
DownloadSpring 2021
Friendship plays an integral part in modern life. Apart from families and romantic partners, friends are one of the most important sources of fulfillment and foundation for a well-lived life. However, studies have shown that people with intellectual disabilities face more challenges forming and...
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Playing with Consent: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Representations of Race, Rape, and Colonialism in BioWare’s Dragon Age
DownloadSpring 2019
In this thesis I analyse BioWare’s Dragon Age series of video games using a modified autoethnographic method and Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology to explore how rape and consent are represented within the games. I find that the player embodies three roles throughout the games in relation to...