- Title
- MMORPG: Towards a Sustainable Livelihood Model for Africa and Beyond
- Creator
- Mostert, André M
- Creator
- Kaschula, Russell H
- Date Issued
- 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175212
- Identifier
- vital:42553
- Identifier
- ISBN ViNOrg 2011
- Identifier
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31800-9_4
- Description
- The burgeoning worlds of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) coupled with increasing access to the internet is opening a new paradigmatic window for a number of disciplines. Many of these have been slow to take up the challenges associated with this emergent framework, due, in no small measure, to the perception that work and play are mutually exclusive. The dominance of this dichotomy contributed to the slow uptake of the potential for these virtual worlds to be harnessed in the fields of education and employment. This reticence was due in no small measure to the technophobia that tends to characterise the adoption of new technologies within fields that have customarily eschewed an embrace.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Mostert, A. and Kaschula, R.H., 2011, July. MMORPG–Towards a Sustainable Livelihood Model for Africa and Beyond. In International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations, Emergent Technologies, and Tools (pp. 28-39). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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