{"id":2342,"date":"2009-01-22T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2009-01-22T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:46:05","slug":"daedalus-project-mmorpg-research-cyberculture-mmorpg-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"DAEDALUS PROJECT: MMORPG Research, Cyberculture, MMORPG Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student in my Computers and Culture class drew our attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickyee.com\/daedalus\/\">the DAEDALUS PROJECT<\/a> which is led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickyee.com\/\">Nick Yee<\/a> at PARC. The Daedalus Project is a blog about MMORG research with longish entries written like short articles that are gathered into issues. There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickyee.com\/daedalus\/gateway_intro.html\">The Daedalus Gateway<\/a> that organizes the articles in a more thematic fashion. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/daedalus.gif' title='Graph from Daedalus'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/daedalus.gif' alt='Graph from Daedalus' width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The articles are fascinating. The graph immediately above was taken from a study on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickyee.com\/daedalus\/archives\/001638.php?page=1\">Game Choices<\/a> that looks at what sorts of characters players choose.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the articles on The Daedalus Project are based on voluntary surveys (see his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickyee.com\/daedalus\/archives\/000198.php#methodology\">methodology<\/a>). It is impressive that Yee is getting between 2000 and 4000 respondents and there is something to be learned by how he returns results, informs people of the survey and so on. I feel that The Daedalus Project represents some sort of new paradigm that crosses method, publication, and outreach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student in my Computers and Culture class drew our attention to the DAEDALUS PROJECT which is led by Nick Yee at PARC. The Daedalus Project is a blog about MMORG research with longish entries written like short articles that are gathered into issues. There is also The Daedalus Gateway that organizes the articles in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DAEDALUS PROJECT: MMORPG Research, Cyberculture, MMORPG Psychology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}