Count them all ! Surely each player discerns which are his. The public measurement of online videogame players: formats and debates

Comptez les tous ! Chaque joueur reconnaîtra les siens. Les mesures d’audience de joueurs en ligne: des formats aux débats

Bruno Vétel ()
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Bruno Vétel: Orange Labs [Issy les Moulineaux] - France Télécom, LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information - Télécom ParisTech - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: An increasing number of researches are carried out on public measurements, this paper deals with self-quantification of online players communities. The online game company frequently publishes an overestimated increase of players' numbers. Some players criticize those measurements and promote alternative accounts stimulating other collective representations. Nevertheless, the reliability of their sources is highly uncertain. This paper discusses those alternatives and unreliable public measurements.

Keywords: Audience measurement; video game; Mmorpg; Quantified Self; Quantification in economics; Mesure comptable de la performance; Jeu; Audience; Mesure; jeu vidéo; Public; Quantification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-05
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Published in L'Harmattan. Vers une culture médi@tic ? Médias, journalisme et espace public à l’épreuve de la numérisation, L'Harmattan, 2015, SFSIC, 978-2-336-30733-6

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