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Writing Games: Collaborative Writing in Digital-Ludic Spaces
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Emmelhainz, Nicole
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1402918660
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, English.
Abstract
This dissertation examines how social network site (SNS) platforms enhance writers’ experiences of pleasure and play in the process of writing together. My primary site of study is Protagonize.com, a SNS that encourages member-generated collaborative creative writing. Correlating Bakhtin’s theory of utterance, Huizinga’s understanding of play, and Wittgenstein’s concept of language games, I argue that Protagonize.com allows writers to engage in writing practices where authorship becomes inherently collaborative, context adapts to users’ needs, and the social-dimension of language emerges.
Committee
Kimberly Emmons (Advisor)
T. Kenneth Fountain (Committee Member)
Sarah Gridley (Committee Member)
William Deal (Committee Member)
Pages
191 p.
Subject Headings
Composition
;
Web Studies
Keywords
collaborative writing
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social network sites
;
pleasure
;
play
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Emmelhainz, N. (2014).
Writing Games: Collaborative Writing in Digital-Ludic Spaces
[Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1402918660
APA Style (7th edition)
Emmelhainz, Nicole.
Writing Games: Collaborative Writing in Digital-Ludic Spaces.
2014. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1402918660.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Emmelhainz, Nicole. "Writing Games: Collaborative Writing in Digital-Ludic Spaces." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1402918660
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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