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dc.contributor.authorAsk, Kristine
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-04T08:08:18Z
dc.date.available2017-10-04T08:08:18Z
dc.date.created2017-08-11T12:16:40Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0270-4676
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2458233
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the use and effect of optimizing strategies in the online game World of Warcraft. Specifically, it looks at the phenomenon known as “theorycrafting,” wherein expert players reverse engineer the game and use its underlying algorithms to calculate maximized play strategies. Play from a theorycrafting perspective is about the correct input and output of numbers, challenging the narrative of play as something free and frivolous. Seeking to understand how play and knowledge relate to each other, the article discusses how theorycrafting’s seemingly abstract, objective, and neutral information about the game is also embedded with values, ideas, and norms. Based on a 1-year ethnographic study, the article uses Jasanoff’s idiom of coproduction to discuss how abstract calculations are rendered meaningful and valuable by players, and the consequences of this in stabilizing particular ways of playing World of Warcraft.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsnb_NO
dc.relation.urihttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0270467617690058
dc.titleThe Value of Calculations: The Coproduction of Theorycraft and Player Practicesnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.volume36nb_NO
dc.source.journalBulletin of Science, Technology & Societynb_NO
dc.source.issue3nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0270467617690058
dc.identifier.cristin1485755
dc.description.localcodeThis is the authors' accepted and refereed manuscript to the article.nb_NO
cristin.unitcode194,62,40,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier
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