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Video games and the social effects that they inflict upon society and the individual have been a highly debated subject. While studies have been made in regards to several social issues and their connection to video games, there was little research in regards to physical game gatherings like LAN-parties, as well as larger game gatherings like Dreamhack, and what the social effects of having physical contact with other people are at these gatherings. The goal with this study was to answer the question: “What are the social effects for the individual when participating in physical video game gatherings?”. This was done through a qualitative study by conducting five semi-structured interviews at the physical game gathering called Umeå Game Night that was located in the Umeå cultural center Klossen at Ålidhems Centrum. Four of the participants were male and one female. “Snowball-sampling” was used to gather the participants for the study through Game Night’s Facebook group. However, this sampling was unsuccessful when no participants were gained from it. Instead I had to take direct contact with people at the game gathering. The interviews were all done during the game gathering in their facility and were then transcribed for analysis with two types of methods; an inductive analysis that was backed up by a deductive analysis in the form of Activity Theory using Engeström’s model of Activity Theory. The results of this study showed that physical game gatherings helped to overcome some negative social effects that the participants thought surrounded online game as well as other social problems that they brought up during the interviews, like toxic behaviour, discrimination, and the feeling of not being welcome. There was an overwhelmingly positive reaction from the participants when being at the game gathering. Being able to socialize with other people proved to be the main motivation. However, even though physical game gatherings showed to improve negative social effects surrounding game, the learning process was still difficult to overcome for new players, and participating in these game gathering may even have negative results in keeping the new players interested in wanting to play as well as participate at the physical game gatherings. This was mainly because of the skill disparity between the experienced players, who were the majority at the game gathering, and the new players, who would feel potentially frustrated from seeing the experienced players being much better than themselves. However, the less experienced female participant in the study indicated that this issue may still be overcome, but more research needs to be done to see how big the issue surrounding the learning process when playing games at game gatherings actually is, and if there are ways to solve it.

張彩鳳. / "2011年5月". / "2011 nian 5 yue". / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-45). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Zhang Caifeng. / Chapter 1. --- 引言 --- p.1-4 / Chapter 2. --- 文獻硏究回顧 --- p.5-7 / Chapter 2.1 --- 教會傳統 --- p.5-6 / Chapter 2.2 --- 近代學者 --- p.6-7 / Chapter 3. --- 香港教會的兒童參與在集體崇拜的現況 --- p.8-11 / Chapter 3.1 --- 完全沒有參與 --- p.8-9 / Chapter 3.2 --- 部份參與 --- p.9 / Chapter 3.3 --- 完全參與 --- p.10-11 / Chapter 3.4 --- 小結 --- p.11 / Chapter 4. --- 兒童未能完全參與集體崇拜的原因 --- p.12-18 / Chapter 4.1 --- 兒童的理解能力有限 --- p.12-14 / Chapter 4.2 --- 兒童騷擾崇拜的進行 --- p.14-16 / Chapter 4.3 --- 以兒童活動作為托兒所 --- p.16-17 / Chapter 4.4 --- 兒童事工是教會增長的工具 --- p.17 / Chapter 4.5 --- 小結 --- p.18 / Chapter 5. --- 崇拜應有的要素 --- p.19-35 / Chapter 5.1 --- 經驗與理性並重 --- p.19-22 / Chapter 5.2 --- 崇拜是一種慶典 --- p.23-26 / Chapter 5.3 --- 崇拜的集體性 --- p.26-32 / Chapter 5.4 --- 上主是崇拜的中心 --- p.32-35 / Chapter 5.5 --- 小結 --- p.35 / Chapter 6. --- 實踐兒童參與在集體崇拜中的具體建議 --- p.36-39 / Chapter 6.1 --- 糾正會眾對崇拜及兒童的認識 --- p.36-37 / Chapter 6.2 --- 教會及會眾要有充份的準備 --- p.37-38 / Chapter 6.3 --- 小結 --- p.39 / Chapter 7. --- 總結 --- p.40-41 / Chapter 8. --- 參考書目 --- p.42-45

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