Escapism in to the Virtual World : A study on the accumulation of Bourdieu’s forms of capital in online games

This study aims to present the characteristics and functions of Bourdieu’s forms of capital;economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital in large online social games genre called Massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG). This is done in order to determine if these are reproduced in a...

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Main Author: Gracia Tjong, Richard Jake
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper 2015
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29219