{"product_id":"systematic-perspectives-on-information-in-physically-performed-roleplay","title":"Systematic Perspectives on Information in Physically Performed Roleplay","description":"This dissertation examines information phenomena that take place in, and related to, physically performed pretence play. The emphasis is on one hand on the play experience and the elements constituting it, but underneath that all exist information processes which essentially define the perimeters of what can be done during play and how. \n\nBeing primarily a metatheoretical work, the dissertation draws on the empirics of earlier researchers and practitioners, further supported with the author's own experiments and field observations. References are analyzed with the use of systematic analysis, a hermeneutical method for finding their key essences, which are then compared with other works. Through this process, new data emerges from the combinations of the old, as seemingly disparate concepts are shown to actually discuss the same things. \n\nThe primary research question of the dissertation is \"What are the essential information systems traits of live-action role-playing situations, and how do those traits affect information behavior during play?\" To understand that question, I explain how live-action role-playing can be defined and what the discursive limits of the phenomenon are. Through a look at how larping takes place also in activities such as historical re-enactment, sadomasochist roleplaying and post-modern magic, I show that the same processes exist in them, but with a different type of framing.","brand":"Tampere University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32449751679076,"sku":"9789514489136","price":55.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/systematic-perspectives-on-information-in-physically-performed-roleplay","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}