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Building a 'World of Warcraft': Cyber-colonialism through 'othering' strategies.

机译:建立“魔兽世界”:通过“其他”策略进行网络殖民主义。

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This thesis provides a rhetorical analysis of the popular video game World of Warcraft (WoW) and related material. The subscriber base of this game makes it a particularly prominent example of discourse with potentially great influence. Where previous studies have focused less on WoW's narrative in favor of a psychological or sociological approach, this study attempts to examine the rhetorical implications of the game's storyline. The study situates WoW within a suitable critical space and shows how strategies used to emphasize racial differences result in a new theoretical framework described by the term "cyber-colonialism.".;The study highlights three strategies through which WoW emphasizes the differences between racial groups and thereby creates its cyber-colonial portrayals: constructing opposing binaries, the role of geography and climate, and the use of color as a marker of deviance. These strategies all have an established history within ancient, medieval, and modern literature and likely influence the way in which participants view WoW's cultures.;The remainder of the rhetorical analysis highlights three arguments WoW itself teaches about particular rhetorical strategies. In particular, this study shows how WoW embraces cross-cultural cooperation, rejects scapegoating as an appropriate rhetorical tool, and encourages the involvement of native cultures in solving problems. WoW has great potential as a teaching tool and considerable room for future analysis and arguments.
机译:本文对流行的电子游戏《魔兽世界》(WoW)和相关资料进行了修辞分析。该游戏的订户基础使其成为具有潜在巨大影响力的话语特别突出的例子。以前的研究较少关注WoW的叙事,而倾向于采用心理学或社会学方法,因此本研究试图检验游戏故事情节的修辞含义。这项研究将《魔兽世界》放在一个合适的关键空间内,并展示了用来强调种族差异的策略如何导致一个以“网络殖民主义”一词描述的新的理论框架。从而创造了其网络殖民主义的写照:构建相对的二进制文件,地理和气候的作用以及使用颜色作为偏差标记。这些策略在古代,中世纪和现代文学中都有悠久的历史,并可能影响参与者看待魔兽世界文化的方式。其余的修辞分析突出了《魔兽世界》本身就特定修辞策略所讲的三个论点。尤其是,这项研究显示了《魔兽世界》如何进行跨文化合作,如何拒绝使用替罪羊作为适当的修辞工具,以及如何鼓励土著文化参与解决问题。 《魔兽世界》作为教学工具具有巨大的潜力,并为以后的分析和争论提供了很大的空间。

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  • 作者

    Pressnell, Levi.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Alabama.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Alabama.;
  • 学科 Multimedia Communications.;Language Rhetoric and Composition.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2013
  • 页码 125 p.
  • 总页数 125
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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