Extending the Dimensions of the Social World through Game­Worlds.

Alfred Schutz's dimensions of the social world was a key component of his phenomenology of the life-world. As Schutz saw it the life-world is arranged around us as its zero-point determined by the “Here and Now” we occupy. From there the lifeworld extends into various zones determined by their...

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Published in:Gamevironments
Main Author: Tuckett, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2015]
In: Gamevironments
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Alfred Schutz
B Avatars
B first person shooter
B Shangyang Zhao
B we-relationship
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Summary:Alfred Schutz's dimensions of the social world was a key component of his phenomenology of the life-world. As Schutz saw it the life-world is arranged around us as its zero-point determined by the “Here and Now” we occupy. From there the lifeworld extends into various zones determined by their relation to our “Here and Now” in terms of space and time. The dimensions of the social world built up the sort of werelationship that was possible with the Other depending on the zone they occupied within the life-world. Due to the time of his writing, Schutz's dimensions could not have factored in the internet and a recent article by Shangyang Zhao (2004) has attempted to extend the dimensions in relation to internet interaction. Building of this, it is the purpose of this paper to extend Schutz's dimensions by looking at First Person Shooters. By looking at game-worlds it is possible to highlight two types of we-relationship missing in the current dimensions: the andsociate relation and the consociated contemporary relation.
ISSN:2364-382X
Contains:Enthalten in: Gamevironments
Persistent identifiers:URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00104725-14