<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mark S. Ackerman</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jack Muramatsu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McDonald, David W.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Social Regulation in an Online Game: Uncovering the Problematics of Code</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work (GROUP’10)</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">code</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ethnography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">games</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">online communities</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">police</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social computing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social control</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social interaction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social life</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social regulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">socio-technical design</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">software infrastructure</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">user study</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">virtual communities</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Complete</style></url></web-urls></urls><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">978-1-4503-0387-3</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;More and more interaction is becoming code-based. Indeed, in online worlds, it is all there is. If software is providing a new basis for social interaction, then changing the infrastructure of interaction may necessarily change social interaction in important ways. As such, it is critical to understand the implications of code - we want to know what the use of code means for socio-technical design. In this paper, based on an ethnographic study of an online game, we examine social regulation in an online game world as a case study of socio-technical design using code. We wanted to know how changing interaction based in code conditioned use in our site. We found that code changed social regulation in three specific ways. First, code made some user actions that were socially unwanted to be immediately visible. Second, code could prevent some actions from occurring or punish users immediately. Finally, software was not able to see all action. Some user actions were too nuanced or subtle for code to catch; others were too ambiguous to place into code. Following Agre, we argue i that a &quot;grammar of action&quot; resulting from the use of code limits the kinds of behaviors that can be seen and dealt with. These findings suggest that there is more than just a gap between the social world and technical capabilities. There are new possibilities, tradeoffs, and limitations that must be considered in socio-technical design, and all come simultaneously.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Muramatsu, Jack</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ackerman, Mark S</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Computing, social activity, and entertainment: A field study of a game MUD</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">combat MUDs</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">entertainment</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">games</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MUDs</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">online communities</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">participant-observation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">play</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social worlds</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">system design</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Complete</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">87–122</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Are game and entertainment systems different than work-oriented systems? What drives the user&#039;s experience in a collaborative game? To answer these questions, we performed a participant-observation study of a combat MUD, a game similar to Dungeons and Dragons. Our interest is in how this social world is arranged and managed (rather than, for example, in how participants form or display individual identities). The study explores the social arrangements and activities that give meaning and structure to the participants. We found that conflict and cooperation were the dominant social activities on this MUD, much more so than sociability. The game&#039;s management played a critical function in maintaining and promoting these activities. Moreover, novelty and entertainment were important for the design of both the system features and the sociality itself.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>