{"id":827,"date":"2010-08-08T23:12:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T07:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2010-08-08T23:12:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T07:12:35","slug":"827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Writing as Night Elf Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Nardi&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalculture.org\/books\/my-life-as-a-night-elf-priest\" target=\"_blank\">My Life as\u00a0 Night Elf Priest <\/a>about World of Warcraft is out by University of Michigan Press. You can look at the summary of her book and also download several of the chapters for free. The book gives a very detailed and positive account of what it means to be immersed in this game environment. The Night Elf is a character who heals people after they have died in battle.\u00a0The book\u00a0deconstructs persistent media stereotypes about game addiction and\u00a0refers to play theory and aesthetics to\u00a0explain the draw of WoW.\u00a0 I wish their would be more experiential books with images and an honest\u00a0writer&#8217;s voice&#8211;it provides a breath of fresh air for soul-less academic writing.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-842\" href=\"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/827\/8008655_0001_001-00000008-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-842\" title=\"8008655_0001_001-00000008\" src=\"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/8008655_0001_001-000000083-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WoW Druid Form, a character that shape-shifts <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0into different animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Bonnie Nardi&#8217;s new book My Life as\u00a0 Night Elf Priest about World of Warcraft is out by University of Michigan Press. You can look at the summary of her book and also download several of the chapters for free. The book gives a very detailed and positive account of what it means to be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=827\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing as Night Elf Priest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[23,38,39],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-research-proceedings","tag-ethnography","tag-virtual-reality","tag-world-of-warcraft","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}