I came across this interesting news late last night, from a blog blogging about another blog. Basically, Greg Lastowka at Terra Nova was blogging about a post from Scott Jennings, who was blogging about David Myers, who was reacting to what players were doing to him in the MMOGs City of Heroes.

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Despite the growing number of studies on video games, there are still gaps in video game research, especially when it comes to describing the situated (in situ) actions of gameplay. The study explores the locally-produced meaning-making practices of video game players, and analyzes gameplay as it occurs, not as a post hoc, reconstructed event, but as a situated event that unfolds in time. The participants of this study are Asian adolescents in New York City who play video games after school. The study is guided by ethnomethodology, an approach that has been applied to studies involving human-machine interactions, and has been increasingly important in helping us understand how people make sense of environments that involve different interfaces and equipment.

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