Context and participation in virtual world Habbo Hotel

This paper presents the results of a small case study that is part of a major research project on language, identity and social media. In this work we focus our attention on context and participation in Habbo Hotel, a virtual world for socialising aimed at teenagers. Through the analysis of a co...

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Autores principales: Parini, Alejandro, Vera, Verónica, Galende, Edgardo, Ganga, Luis, Abuchaem, Renata, Cifre, Solange
Formato: Working Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad de Belgrano. Departamento de investigaciones. Documentos de Trabajo.Facultad de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros 2014
Materias:
virtual world
Habbo Hotel
Hotel Habbo
language
idioma
mundo virtual
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.ub.edu.ar/handle/123456789/2455
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topic virtual world
Habbo Hotel
Hotel Habbo
language
idioma
mundo virtual
spellingShingle virtual world
Habbo Hotel
Hotel Habbo
language
idioma
mundo virtual
Parini, Alejandro
Vera, Verónica
Galende, Edgardo
Ganga, Luis
Abuchaem, Renata
Cifre, Solange
Context and participation in virtual world Habbo Hotel
topic_facet virtual world
Habbo Hotel
Hotel Habbo
language
idioma
mundo virtual
description This paper presents the results of a small case study that is part of a major research project on language, identity and social media. In this work we focus our attention on context and participation in Habbo Hotel, a virtual world for socialising aimed at teenagers. Through the analysis of a corpus of text-based interactions we explore some of the contextual features that condition the way participants enact social action through participation in prefabricated role-playing situations that simulate real-life scenarios. The observation and interpretation of the ways the participants actively engage in a variety of playful textual avatar-mediated exchanges lead us to suggest that the forms of participation in Habbo are dependent on the participants’ social agendas that generate different levels of commitment to the communicative situation which in turn can trigger different types of social behaviour, including linguistic behaviour. This, coupled with contextual features like anonymity and spatial distance, we argue, seems give rise to a less constrained relation between language and situation.
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author Parini, Alejandro
Vera, Verónica
Galende, Edgardo
Ganga, Luis
Abuchaem, Renata
Cifre, Solange
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Vera, Verónica
Galende, Edgardo
Ganga, Luis
Abuchaem, Renata
Cifre, Solange
author_sort Parini, Alejandro
title Context and participation in virtual world Habbo Hotel
title_short Context and participation in virtual world Habbo Hotel
title_full Context and participation in virtual world Habbo Hotel
title_fullStr Context and participation in virtual world Habbo Hotel
title_full_unstemmed Context and participation in virtual world Habbo Hotel
title_sort context and participation in virtual world habbo hotel
publisher Universidad de Belgrano. Departamento de investigaciones. Documentos de Trabajo.Facultad de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros
publishDate 2014
url http://repositorio.ub.edu.ar/handle/123456789/2455
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