property in world of warcraft, a sociological approach

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Ownership in the Digital Age: A Sociological Approach

Luca Rossi, Fabio Giglietto, Giovanni Boccia Artieri - Dpt. of Communication Studies - University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” - Italy


technical boundaries /

society’s semantic of property

property in world of warcraft

media-environment12 actual practices

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Media are an active environmet:Experience came from Communication and Action


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[scenario | media-world perspective]


technical boundaries

actual practices

[scenario | everyone mass media]


property practices

[property | property practices]

Property designates those things that are commonly recognized as the entities that a person or group has exclusive rights in respect of. (Wikipedia)

society’s semantic shiftold nextObject value Access value

Individual authorship

Collective authorship

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Continuous creation


society’s semantic“stock of rules and themes available on the processing of meaning”


World of Warcraft/ digital practices

digital world’s rules:new objects (BoP; BoE; Normale)trade rules…

property practices:loot rules;Gold farming/selling;…

technical boundaries

actual practices


Normal Share, gift, sell, Disenchant, Drop, destroy, Try

Binds on PickUp Disenchant, Drop, destroy

Binds on Equipement Before trying: Gift, Sell, Tried: Disenchant, Drop, destroy


1.The co-existence of different semantics is possible in different area of life experience;

2.Those different semantics are going to influence each others;

3.This continuous perturbation can be observed also in specific external Social System e.g. for private property related semantic the typical field of observation is the law System.

Consequences:

property in world of warcraft, a sociological approach

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