Mini-Ethnography on Gamer Culture Essay

My friends and I are constantly playing games where the winner is entitled to bragging rights. We versus all the time, and boastful when we play well. One topic that some of the biggest rivalries and arguments come from in my friend group is with professional sport teams. For example, a couple of my friends are fans of the Golden State Warriors and never fail to let me know how successful of a year they’re having. On the other hand, I can’t stand this team and always tell them how the team is going to choke. I argue with them about the talent the team has and about if there captain really is the best player in the league. Simple arguments and opinions turn into deadly rivalries when my friends begin to talk professional sports. All of our beliefs typically collide in some way and we’re left debating over questions that have no true

Video games have become as pervasive an aspect of our society as television, with many people spending more time playing video games than watching television. There are many perspectives with which to gauge videos games’ effect on society, from a functionalist, conflict or interactionist perspective. (Schaefer, 2011) Each of these sociological theories can provide a different view of video games, how they affect society and the subcultures that develop around them.

There is a whole population of people that defend players beating on each other in the middle of a sports competition, on the mindless basis that it has always been that way.

Bad sportsmanship occurs again in "Friday Night Lights" when the quarterback throws a bad pass as the last seconds tick off of the game clock. One of his teammates curses him, when the right thing to do would be to say something like, "good effort, better luck next time".

This is the phase of the cyber operation in which the cyberwarriors gather information about potentials targets. This operation can be subdivided in three sub phases. The war planners provides objectives, targeters search for potential target that might achieve the war objectives, intelligence professionals gather information about the target’s weaknesses that might be exploited in an attack (Chapple & Seidl, 2015, p. 5.2).

All people of all colors, ages and gender are represented in a similar way within the games, or do anyone stands out in all this? Someone is under-represented? How important to be represented in the media?

However, since there are no referees, the players, themselves, must make these decisions inevitably leading to arguments. The arguments are usually settled in one of two ways. Either one player allows the other player to win the argument due to respect, or the players decide to perform an action called “shooting for it.” In this process, the two players who are arguing must shoot the basketball from a certain distance. Whoever makes the shot by putting the basketball into the goal wins the argument. Players who come to these nightly events usually come often and are familiar with the other players because they know each others names. If a new player decides to join the basketball game, it can be visible that he or she is not familiar with the other players due to a lack of comfort in body language and lack of communication with others. In order to further understand the dynamic of the arguments that ensue within these basketball games and the role that both old and new players have in this social interaction with each other, the ideas of facework and social code and norms will be applied to the nightly basketball game of

On November 9th, 1994, there was a chemical element called Darmstadtium. It’s a radioactive heavy metal that is name after the city Darmstadt, Germany where it was first found. It’s a manmade element that Yuri Oganessian Vladimir Utyonkov at the JINR made isotope 273 by combining plutonium and sulfur together. Within the same year, Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Munzenberg from the GSI unit uses lead and nickel to combine it with isotope 269 into the previous isotope. With the combinations it created a new element and called it element 110. There is still little known things about the element such as the boiling point and the melting point.

Peer pressure is encouraged to express disappointment with teammates for not conforming or meeting expectations of ‘minimum practice standards’. Subjective judgments are made on fellow athlete’s efforts. It is acceptable, and at times even encouraged, to ‘harass’ a team mate for forgetting to wear the team uniform

In the world of gaming consoles have grown over the years and one thing PC games had over consoles was massive multiplier online games (MMO’s). Now with the gaming systems getting better MMO’s have started to find their own place on gaming consoles. One in particular is Trove by Trion Worlds. Trove is a MMO and was originally on the PC but had been recently added to the consoles systems and has taken off with popularity. To play trove you run around different worlds and as you level you progress into higher leveled portals to keep leveling yourself to the max level of thirty. While you run around you will encounter other players who are above you and below you on the level leaderboards and you can interact with them in a global chat or in

For thousands of years warfare remained relatively unchanged. While the tactics and weapons have changed as new methods of combat evolved, men and women or their weapons still had to meet at the same time and place in order to attack, defend, surrender or conquer. However, the advent of the of the internet has created a new realm of combat in which armies can remotely conduct surveillance, reconnaissance, espionage, and attacks from an ambiguous and space-less digital environment. Both state and non-state actors have already embraced this new realm and utilized both legal and illegal means to further facilitate their interests. What complicates cyber security further is as states attempt to protect themselves from cyber-warfare, private

In a society, culture has always been defined by the particular arts, beliefs and customs of

The branches of the military, for a couple generations, have always been the Army, Navy, Air force, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard; however, in an ever evolving digital world, the notion that outer space would be the next military front is being rapidly replaced by the idea that cyber space will be the next arms race. The United States has been defending attacks on their infrastructure day after day, night after night, when one hacker on one side of the world sleeps, another takes their place to attempt to compromise the US government. The motives may range from a political ‘hacktivist’ trying to prove a point, to an economic spy, trying to gain a competitive edge on its more upstart rivals, to an attempt to control the United States

in sports. Athletes may be seeing sports as an outlet to vent there frustration and anger.

As the future of warfare becomes more sophisticated, what will be the military technology of tomorrow? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, believes that there are three possible answers to that question: nuclear warfare, biological/chemical warfare, or cyber warfare. While nuclear and biological warfare is conducted on a battlefield, cyber warfare operates via the Internet and computers. All of these weapons have the same destructive potential, but the circumstances surrounding