My life as a night elf priest: an anthropological account of World of Warcraft

In: Technologies of the imagination : new media in every day life

Abstract

What is World of warcraft and who plays it? -- An ethnographic invetigation of World of warcraft -- Play as aesthetic experience -- A new medium -- Work, play, and the magic circle -- Addiction -- Theorycraft and mods -- Gender -- Culture : WoW in China-and North America