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[Academic Research] Your input is crucial!
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Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2014-06-06 07:09:54 UTC
Hello and thank you for visiting this topic!

Let me begin with some words of introduction : I am a Media & Communication Master's student at Sorbonne University, Paris.

The purpose of this post is to consolidate the Master's dissertation I am writing on Eve and its metagame.

To that end, I am distributing an online form.

It can be completed in under 2 minutes (cross my heart, I had it tested ;)).

If you could spare the time to give me your take on the meta-gaming in Eve, it would be an immeasurable help for me.

Of course, your answers will be strictly confidential.

in advance, thank you so much !

Note: I'm of course willing to receive any kind of feedback on this form and the way it defines the (meta-)game. If you have any suggestion or comment, please feel free to post them on this topic! I'll be checking it regularly (I promise not to bump :))

Again, thank you and fly safe !
JITAALT808
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-06-06 07:12:26 UTC
I find it difficult that you're basing a master's thesis on on a single data point. Srsly? A 5 question survey for a masters?
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2014-06-06 07:21:18 UTC
Yeah this sure looks methodologically sound. Roll

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2014-06-06 07:26:52 UTC
This thread is now about saving the OPs master degree.
Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-06-06 07:30:44 UTC
What's a "wether" OP? Some newfangled device to take down our lord and saviour goonswarm legion?

Post with your NPC alt main and not your main main alt!
Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2014-06-06 07:35:05 UTC
Yep, didn't think about making that precision :p

I'm basing my paper on various corpus (corpi ?) analysis and interviews.

This form is meant to have at least one "general" source of data to consolidate (or counter) some points I made, but it's not my core material :)

Again, this doesn't mean it's a mere secondary source for me, I just can't use it as my primary material (for the very reasons that were pointed out above :p)
samualvimes
Brothers At Arms
#7 - 2014-06-06 07:53:21 UTC
Would it be possible to ask what the basis for this is?

I can understand the need for a questionnaire but I'm not sure where it's going? What's your direction?

i.e what are you intending to find out/prove?

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Carmen Electra
AlcoDOTTE
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#8 - 2014-06-06 08:03:49 UTC
A thesis on the cultural bubble that exists in General Discussion might be more interesting.

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Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2014-06-06 08:07:00 UTC
samualvimes wrote:
Would it be possible to ask what the basis for this is?

I can understand the need for a questionnaire but I'm not sure where it's going? What's your direction?

i.e what are you intending to find out/prove?


Well it's kind of a circumvoluted thinking, but basically I'm trying to (at least grossly) define how the Eve community works - as an Online Community, as a society, as an ongoing meta-game, etc.
The point is to confront these actual workings to the way CCP maintains an infrastructure that (it's my personal assesment) aims to integrate and provide structure for these social mechanisms (a corporate added value of which you are, I'm sure, all aware of the originality in cultural industries).

Then I am using the validation/invalidation of the various points above to humbly criticize some Transmedia theories, mostly on the matters of collective intelligence and participative culture.

BUT to do all without getting stuck into my own head, I need general, exterior inputs on words that I don't want to use naively, like meta-gaming.

I hope this answers your question :)
Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2014-06-06 08:12:05 UTC
Carmen Electra wrote:
A thesis on the cultural bubble that exists in General Discussion might be more interesting.


I agree, it would also be a rich subject :) however I'm kind of short on time to grab on the phenomenons I would like to explore.

Also, just to clarifiy : I'm sorry for my uncertain English, but I thought that "Master's dissertation" meant an intermediate work, you know, a few dozen pages (with a few months to do the research) and not what I would call a thesis which would be a few hundreds in 3 years.

(And if I was actually writing a thesis, trust me, you would die of old age before finishing my survey :p)

Am I losing something in translation ?
Winters Chill
Unitas Incorporated
#11 - 2014-06-06 08:18:01 UTC
Hello, I filled in your form.

Perhaps the primary source for the term "meta gaming" might be useful to you.

If you havn't already read it, heres richard garfields orginal article:

Lost In The Shuffle
Arronicus
State War Academy
Caldari State
#12 - 2014-06-06 08:18:41 UTC
Good luck.
Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2014-06-06 08:54:12 UTC
Arronicus wrote:
Good luck.


Thank you :)
Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2014-06-06 08:59:47 UTC
Winters Chill wrote:
Hello, I filled in your form.

Perhaps the primary source for the term "meta gaming" might be useful to you.

If you havn't already read it, heres richard garfields orginal article:

Lost In The Shuffle


Thanks a lot !
Chopper Rollins
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2014-06-06 09:49:09 UTC
Sasha Arei Shadowhisp wrote:
...
The point is to confront these actual workings to the way CCP maintains an infrastructure that (it's my personal assesment) aims to integrate and provide structure for these social mechanisms (a corporate added value of which you are, I'm sure, all aware of the originality in cultural industries)....


Did your survey, but that sentence gave me cancer.



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Solecist Project
#16 - 2014-06-06 09:57:09 UTC
Do you have a canoe that I could borrow please?

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2014-06-06 10:10:31 UTC
Chopper Rollins wrote:
Sasha Arei Shadowhisp wrote:
...
The point is to confront these actual workings to the way CCP maintains an infrastructure that (it's my personal assesment) aims to integrate and provide structure for these social mechanisms (a corporate added value of which you are, I'm sure, all aware of the originality in cultural industries)....


Did your survey, but that sentence gave me cancer.





If it's not too much trouble, could you elaborate please ? What do you think is wrong ?

Thanks in advance, it would really help :)
Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2014-06-06 10:24:45 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Do you have a canoe that I could borrow please?


Why, of course ! Assuming it's not sinked past my deadline :p
Gully Alex Foyle
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2014-06-06 10:40:03 UTC
Done and good luck!

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Sasha Arei Shadowhisp
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2014-06-06 10:55:03 UTC
Gully Alex Foyle wrote:
Done and good luck!


Thanks ;)
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