Tag: RPGs

• Pop Culture Lens: Dungeons and Dragons

  

  In the twenty-fourth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I welcome friend of the podcast, psychologist in training, and long-time gamer Steve Discont to discuss the classic table-top role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. In this episode, we each recall our experiences with role-playing games, from Dungeons and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 13, 2016

  Digital Games, Fandom

  American fan, communal storytelling, Dave Arneson, Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy, gamification, Gary Gygax, GenCon, group communication, imaginative literacy, nerds, role-playing, RPGs, Satanic panic, scapegoat, social constructivism, Tolkien

• Metaphors for making sense of virtual worlds

  

  The following paper comes from a presentation given at ECREA in 2010 and at NCA in 2011 (the version of which can be found here on the blog). I submitted this paper to a journal, but never did anything with it after it was rejected. I still think there are interesting ideas in the paper, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 21, 2015

  Virtual Worlds

  City of Heroes, design, meaning-making, metaphors, MMORPGs, MMOs, Roskilde University, RPGs, Second Life, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, Virtual worlds