Playing the game: role distance and digital performance

Title: Playing the game: role distance and digital performance
Creator: Carroll, John; Cameron, David
Relation: Applied Theatre Researcher Vol. 6, Issue 1
Relation: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=218/view,page=4
Publisher: Griffith University
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
Description: This paper explores the connection between the conventions of the live role-based performance of process drama and the mediated performance of online role-playing video games. Both activities allow participants to ‘become somebody else'. Both deal with the identity shifts possible within imagined environments. This mutability of identity provides a metaphor for considering the episodic nature of inrole performance and out-of-role reflection in both drama and video games. Using the massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORP) game EverQuest as a case study, this paper examines digital performance and its relationship to the dramatic conventions of role distance and role protection. It also examines the common learning outcomes that could usefully be explored between process drama and video games.
Subject: multiplayer online role-playing (MMORP); EverQuest; role distance; process drama
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/926870
Identifier: uon:9968
Identifier: ISSN:1443-1726
Language: eng
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