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      Cultural StudiesMedia SociologySocial TheoryGame Theory
Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen coined the term ‘supernormal stimulus’ after discovering that birds who lay small, pale blue eggs speckled with grey prefer to sit on larger, bright blue eggs with black polka-dots. He found that he could... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyNeuroscienceEthologySociology
Social games – games that operate within social network sites and draw on a user’s social graph – are a rapidly growing phenomena. According to AppData’s facebook applications report, Zynga’s social game, Farmville, as at the 15th March... more
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      Data MiningData MiningCasual GamesSocial Games
The increasing necessity of engaging in social interaction through online commercial providers such as Facebook, alongside the ability of providers to extract, aggregate, analyse and commercialise the data and metadata such activities... more
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      Game studiesInternet StudiesData MiningFacebook
While social games such as Zynga’s FarmVille are often positioned as poor gaming experiences or as disguised financial and data-extraction processes (Bogost, 2010; Rossi, 2009), this article considers social games as part of a wider... more
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      Social GamesSocial Network GamesFarmville
This paper explores some of the ways in which social games – games played with others through social network sites such as Facebook - are situated within the everyday. It argues that social games are more than just games; they perform a... more
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      GenderSocial GamesSocial Network GamesFarmville
O artigo tem por finalidade compreender como as dinâmicas sociais de competição, conflito e cooperação existente nos social network games operam no processo de constituição identitária dos sujeitos no ciberespaço. A partir da participação... more
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      Social GamesFarmvilleIdentidade Virtual
A presente tese parte do reconhecimento de que os social network games oferecem espaços para que os seus participantes exercitem a reflexão de suas identidades. Neles, sujeitos identificam-se e moldam seus perfis para serem reconhecidos... more
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      Identity (Culture)FacebookComunicacion SocialSocial Games
A presente tese parte do reconhecimento de que os social network games oferecem espacos para que os seus participantes exercitem a reflexao de suas identidades. Neles, sujeitos identificam-se e moldam seus perfis para serem reconhecidos e... more
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      SociologyIdentity (Culture)FacebookNetnography
In 2010, the game designer and cultural critic Ian Bogost released a Facebook-based social game called Cow Clicker. It was made in order to make apparent the mechanics of online ‘click-based’ social games, such as the hugely successful... more
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      Critical TheoryJean BaudrillardFacebook StudiesFarmville