Browsing OSU - Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "game studies"
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Rhetorical playbook: Football, race, rhetoric, and play possibility spaces of the American university
(2019-12)This dissertation examines and defines the relationship of college football within the culture of the American university, especially at larger Division I athletic schools. In my first two chapters, I argue that universities ... -
Social geographies of warcraft: A discursive evaluation of a virtual world's effects on its users
(2021-05)Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game with an expansiveness, realness, and slew of opportunities that seem to parallel the real world. WoW also fosters social ...