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Gamers Defining Gamers : = Exploring Gamer Identities and the Subculture from Their Perspectives.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gamers Defining Gamers :/
Reminder of title:	Exploring Gamer Identities and the Subculture from Their Perspectives.
Author:	Stotler, Melody.
Description:	1 online resource (55 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-03A.
Subject:	Psychology. -
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ISBN:	9781085618434

Gamers Defining Gamers : = Exploring Gamer Identities and the Subculture from Their Perspectives.
Stotler, Melody.

Gamers Defining Gamers :Exploring Gamer Identities and the Subculture from Their Perspectives. - 1 online resource (55 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fielding Graduate University, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references

As a multi-billion-dollar industry, gaming has become a prevalent research topic. However, understanding gamers has alluded researchers because there is a lack of consistency when defining what it means to be a gamer. Previous research notes that those who play games may not identify as gamers because of stigmatization. Rather than say everyone who plays games is a gamer this dissertation focuses on asking gamers to define themselves and their community. Two studies were done, one qualitative and one quantitative. An exploratory qualitative open-ended questionnaire was given to participants from across gaming genres and community platforms (e.g., Twitch) to ascertain how gamers define the gamer identity. A second study, adapted from the Fan Identity Scale was distributed to gamers across a variety of gaming platforms, genres, and game-related forums to determine if gamers followed the same patterns of enthusiasm, appreciation, and socialization as fans of other popular media. Additionally, a measure for explicit self-identity was used to determine the degree to which gamers are comfortable explicitly self-identifying as such. In the first study, gamers consistently stated that gamers are set apart from non gamers in their passion for games, consistent game play, and participation in communities with fellow gamers. Consistent with those results, the second study found that the Gamer Identity Scale is a useful measure of the gamer identity, and that there is a significant relationship between the Gamer Identity Scale and the Explicitly Defined Gamer Identity measure. In contrast, those who took the Fan Identity Scale scored low on measures of self-definition. For gamers, however, both measures accurately predicted whether someone identified as a gamer. Future studies should include these measures in gamer research, to more accurately describe the gamer community.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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