We use ethnographically informed survey and interview data to explore therapeutic and problematic play in the online World of Warcraft (WoW). We focus on how game-play in WoW is driven by shared and socially transmitted models of success that we conceptualize as cultural ideals. Our research reveals associations between having higher online compared to offline success, on the one hand, and game...

In this paper, we explore social life and play experiences on Nostalrius Begins, a World of Warcraft (WoW) private server. Private servers allow players to return to previous versions of a game before changes that modified it. Research indicates that changes to the current version of WoW discourage sociality and are upsetting for many players. Through a year-long ethnography, we found that the ...

With the immense popularity of massively multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft (WoW), other media as well as game research have discovered gaming as a topic of discussion and study. These discussions, however, tend to ignore the history of both games and of game studies. This article addresses the connections between one of the old and, today, obscure forms of using computers for multipla...

Color interpolation is a form of upsampling, which introduces constraints on the relationship between neighboring pixels in a color image. These constraints can be utilized to substantially boost the accuracy of steganography detectors. In this paper, we introduce a rich model formed by 3D co-occurrences of color noise residuals split according to the structure of the Bayer color filter array t...

Background: Mexico is innovating in the livestock industry through vitro generation of bovine embryos with technologies such as well-of-the-well (WOW) and polyester mesh (PM) single-embryo culture systems. These techniques allow to maintain separate areas a shared medium. Objective: To compare quantity quality produced WOW PM systems versus conventional (CG) system. Methods: In total, 345 ferti...

Dieser Beitrag thematisiert die Kompetenzentwicklung und das Wissensmanagement durch situiertes Lernen am Beispiel des Massively Multiplayer Online-Rollenspiels World of Warcraft (WoW). Auf der Basis der Darstellung der Komplexität des Spiels werden mehrere Wissensbereiche definiert. Darüber hinaus werden Untersuchungsergebnisse präsentiert, welche Aufschluss über die Demographie, das Nutzungsv...