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URL:https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/events/misbehavior-in-virtual-worlds
 -breaking-the-rules-for-social-benefit/
SUMMARY:Misbehavior in virtual worlds: Breaking the rules for social benefi
 t
DESCRIPTION:Journalism and media communication master's student Kevin Shifl
 ett defends his thesis "Misbehavior in virtual worlds: Breaking the rules 
 for social benefit."\n\nKevin's project examines the behavior of players o
 f a steampunk mystery game in the virtual world Second Life and identifies
  ways that cheating and misbehavior can sometimes contribute to a well-fun
 ctioning online team. He uses observational and ethnographic methods to id
 entify how breaking the rules isn't always a bad thing.\n\nABSTRACT\nThis 
 thesis uses Gidden’s (1984) Structuration Theory as a guiding framework 
 for examining the causes and consequences of misbehavior in virtual worlds
 .  Misbehavior is clearly delineated from more commonly studied cheating b
 ehaviors to examine the possibility that certain unintended behaviors (tho
 se that break coded rules\, semiotic rules\, and emerging social norms) ma
 y be productive and even beneficial behaviors for social groups in online 
 spaces.  Data was gathered at a private island within Second Life as part 
 of the larger SCRIBE project.  Therefore\, this thesis conducted a seconda
 ry analysis of qualitative data and found that participants were primarily
  able to misbehave by transgressing boundaries created by structures of do
 mination\, legitimation\, and signification if the group identity of detec
 tive trainees was salient over the individual identities of the quest grou
 p present.  Such findings are consistent with the social identity model of
  deindividuation effects (Lea &amp\; Spears\, 1991).  Further findings are
  discussed in detail using supporting literature and theory.\n
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