A Quest for Meaning: Facing Uncertainty, Anonymity, the Hidden and the Unknown Space in Azeroth

In this thesis I aim to explore how meaning is interpreted and adapted in relation to social performances and the emergence of blind spots. In World of Warcraft, blind spots take the forms of anonymity of players, uncertainty of meaning, venturing through the unknown space, and the hidden. Blind spo...

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Main Author: Platell, Annabelle Norma Marye
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77109
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description In this thesis I aim to explore how meaning is interpreted and adapted in relation to social performances and the emergence of blind spots. In World of Warcraft, blind spots take the forms of anonymity of players, uncertainty of meaning, venturing through the unknown space, and the hidden. Blind spots form types of knowledge that cannot be ascertained easily or at all while playing. However by identifying them, one can study how meaning is created.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-771092019-12-06T00:33:26Z A Quest for Meaning: Facing Uncertainty, Anonymity, the Hidden and the Unknown Space in Azeroth Platell, Annabelle Norma Marye In this thesis I aim to explore how meaning is interpreted and adapted in relation to social performances and the emergence of blind spots. In World of Warcraft, blind spots take the forms of anonymity of players, uncertainty of meaning, venturing through the unknown space, and the hidden. Blind spots form types of knowledge that cannot be ascertained easily or at all while playing. However by identifying them, one can study how meaning is created. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77109 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Platell, Annabelle Norma Marye
A Quest for Meaning: Facing Uncertainty, Anonymity, the Hidden and the Unknown Space in Azeroth
title A Quest for Meaning: Facing Uncertainty, Anonymity, the Hidden and the Unknown Space in Azeroth
title_full A Quest for Meaning: Facing Uncertainty, Anonymity, the Hidden and the Unknown Space in Azeroth
title_fullStr A Quest for Meaning: Facing Uncertainty, Anonymity, the Hidden and the Unknown Space in Azeroth
title_full_unstemmed A Quest for Meaning: Facing Uncertainty, Anonymity, the Hidden and the Unknown Space in Azeroth
title_short A Quest for Meaning: Facing Uncertainty, Anonymity, the Hidden and the Unknown Space in Azeroth
title_sort quest for meaning: facing uncertainty, anonymity, the hidden and the unknown space in azeroth
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77109