Mapping the Imaginary - Maps in Fantasy Role-Playing-Games
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In: FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, Vol. 9, No. 3, Art 25, 2008.
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T1 - Mapping the Imaginary - Maps in Fantasy Role-Playing-Games
AU - Röhl, Tobias
AU - Herbrik, Regine
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper deals with cartographic representations as means of communicating the imaginary using maps in fantasy role-playing games as an example. Drawing on SCHUTZian accounts of intersubjectivity and communication we understand maps as one of many strategies to deal with the problem of "medium transcendencies" posed by communicating with others. The methodology of "sociological hermeneutics" (SOEFFNER) is introduced as means of approaching maps and the interactions they are involved in. In our analyses of maps used in role-playing games we can then show that maps are not only a means of locating oneself but also a means of actively creating a meaningful place in which we are entangled. Thus, maps help to form a sense of belonging in (imaginary) territories which are only given to us in mediated form.
AB - This paper deals with cartographic representations as means of communicating the imaginary using maps in fantasy role-playing games as an example. Drawing on SCHUTZian accounts of intersubjectivity and communication we understand maps as one of many strategies to deal with the problem of "medium transcendencies" posed by communicating with others. The methodology of "sociological hermeneutics" (SOEFFNER) is introduced as means of approaching maps and the interactions they are involved in. In our analyses of maps used in role-playing games we can then show that maps are not only a means of locating oneself but also a means of actively creating a meaningful place in which we are entangled. Thus, maps help to form a sense of belonging in (imaginary) territories which are only given to us in mediated form.
KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
KW - Sociology
KW - maps
KW - cartography
KW - role-playing games
KW - video hermeneutics
KW - sociological hermeneutics
KW - visual sociology
U2 - 10.17169/fqs-9.3.1162
DO - 10.17169/fqs-9.3.1162
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 9
JO - FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
JF - FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
SN - 1438-5627
IS - 3
M1 - Art 25
ER -