Date of Award
Summer 8-2017
Degree Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Criminal Justice
School
Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Security
Committee Chair
Joshua Hill
Committee Chair Department
Criminal Justice
Committee Member 2
Kimberly Chism
Committee Member 2 Department
Criminal Justice
Committee Member 3
Laura Gulledge
Committee Member 3 Department
Criminal Justice
Abstract
Video games represent a growing genre of media quickly becoming one of the leading forms of entertainment (Jordan, 2014). This popularity has allowed new playstyles to emerge across the video game genre, such as e-Sports and speedrunning. In particular, the speedrunning community has somewhat redefined what it means to “cheat” in a video game by accepting the use certain software and hardware violations that could be seen as “cheating” to the general gaming community. This paper examined the social construction of cheating in this digital community through the use of grounded theory methods.
ORCID ID
0000-0002-7902-8211
Copyright
2017, Christopher Glenn Brewer
Recommended Citation
Brewer, Christopher G., "Born to Run: A Grounded Theory Study of Cheating in the Online Speedrunning Community" (2017). Master's Theses. 311.
https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/311
Included in
Criminology Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, Social Psychology and Interaction Commons