TY - GEN
T1 - A tribute to mad skill
T2 - 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives, CHI 2013
AU - Pace, Tyler
AU - Toombs, Austin
AU - Gross, Shad
AU - Pattin, Tony
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, we look at the prominent World of Warcraft machinima community as an expert amateur online community and present a multi-part study of a canon of the most successful works (i.e., machinima videos) produced by this community. By focusing our study on its roughly 300 most successful examples, the determination of which we explain in the paper, we are able to highlight the evolving visual practices, tools, and aesthetic sensibilities of the community. Chiefly, our study identifies how creativity support tools and visual practices are inextricably linked and mutually support the in-kind development of the other. For WoW machinima and its producers, the affordance of creativity tools and the cultivation of visual skill synced at key moments and in powerful ways to support the rapid growth, experimentation, and refinement of amateur expertise at the individual and community levels.
AB - In this paper, we look at the prominent World of Warcraft machinima community as an expert amateur online community and present a multi-part study of a canon of the most successful works (i.e., machinima videos) produced by this community. By focusing our study on its roughly 300 most successful examples, the determination of which we explain in the paper, we are able to highlight the evolving visual practices, tools, and aesthetic sensibilities of the community. Chiefly, our study identifies how creativity support tools and visual practices are inextricably linked and mutually support the in-kind development of the other. For WoW machinima and its producers, the affordance of creativity tools and the cultivation of visual skill synced at key moments and in powerful ways to support the rapid growth, experimentation, and refinement of amateur expertise at the individual and community levels.
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U2 - 10.1145/2470654.2466267
DO - 10.1145/2470654.2466267
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84877949525
SN - 9781450318990
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2019
EP - 2028
BT - CHI 2013
Y2 - 27 April 2013 through 2 May 2013
ER -