“You Feel Like You’ve Found a Place Where You Belong”: Symbolic Interactionism and Online Social Video Games in the Age of COVID-19
Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media
Published online on August 21, 2024
Abstract
Games and Culture, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 685-703, June 2026.
This paper investigates how players perceive and understand the sociality afforded by online social video games (OSGs), framed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing data from semi-structured interviews (n= 20), we apply Blumer’s concept of symbolic ...
This paper investigates how players perceive and understand the sociality afforded by online social video games (OSGs), framed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing data from semi-structured interviews (n= 20), we apply Blumer’s concept of symbolic ...