Index
Acknowledgments VII
Introduction: "Orc Professor LFG," or Researching in Azeroth 1
Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg
Culture 17
1 Corporate Ideology in World of Warcraft 19
Scott Rettberg
2 "Never Such Innocence Again": War and Histories
in World of Warcraft 39
Esther MacCallum-Stewart
3 World of Warcraft as a Playground for Feminism 63
Hilde G. Corneliussen
4 The Familiar and the Foreign: Playing (Post)Colonialism
in World of Warcraft 87
Jessica Langer
World 109
5 A Hollow World: World of Warcraft as Spatial Practice 111
Espen Aarseth
6 World Creation and Lore: World of Warcraft as Rich Text 123
Tanya Krzywinska
7 What Makes World of Warcraft a World? A Note on Death
and Dying 143
Lisbeth Klastrup
8 Quests in World of Warcraft Deferral and Repetition 167
Jill Walker Rettberg
Play 185
9 Does World of Warcraft Change Everything? How a PvP Server,
Multinational Playerbase, and Surveillance Mod Scene
Caused Me Pause 187
T. L. Taylor
10 Humans Playing World of Warcraft: or Deviant Strategies? 203
Torill Elvira Mortensen
11 Role-play vs. Gameplay: The Difficulties of Playing
a Role in World of Warcraft 225
Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Justin Parsler
Identity 247
12 Character Identification in World of Warcraft:
The Relationship between Capacity and Appearance 249
Ragnhild Tronstad
13 Playing with Names: Gaming and Naming in World
of Warcraft 265
Charlotte Hagström
Contributors 287
Glossary 291
Index 295
