Guild Wars 2

I’m a Masters student who is fixing up her thesis proposal right now, and what I’m looking to do is create a curriculum for 9th grade English that focuses on learning about digital citizenship through a MMORPG, as well as enhance literature through aesthetic experience. Guild Wars 2 really seems to fit the bill story wise and in its expansive cooperative gameplay for the sort of game I’m looking to use.

Where do you come in?

Well I may be interested in doing a mini-ethnography for a few months, which would entail hopefully joining a guild and getting some interviews out of the members. All of this is still in its infancy of being thought up, and probably wouldn’t begin until the summer, but I’m heavily leaning toward it!

So I’d just like to know, would anyone be interested in participating in that sort of study? Again, probably wouldn’t start until the summer, but I’d just like to get a feel for the participation level. I’m on the NA servers, and you wouldn’t have to worry about personal exposure because it would be anonymous.

Thanks for reading, responding, or pondering!

Your best bet would be to join a large guild wihtout saying anything about this. Get to know the types of people in the guild. Then start asking random people in the guild via PM’s.

Problem with doing what u just done and asking for people to come forward is that u will inevitably get the very loud and expresive people only which dont represent the average playerbase. Not to mention only a very very small portion of the GW2 playerbase use these forums…like in most game forums :P

Need to start somewhere!

I’d be more interested in being in a guild that knows my intentions than them finding out and somehow being angry about it. That would sort of ruin the study as well.

Either way, just putting out feelers, and definitely grateful for the idea!

The people in Operation: Union are a helpful sort. We’re pretty much just a group of people who got together to have fun playing all aspects of the game, and a guild formed out of it in the end.

I would suggest making a post in our thread here in Players Helping Players or maybe on our website (see my sig for both links). Something like this I’m sure the guild members would like to talk over before giving you a final yes or no, but you can ask (and mention I suggested you do so)!

Thanks a ton Helequin! I’ll be sure to bookmark your guild site.

I actually wrote my Master thesis on digital citizenship (or rather, on the philosophical question of whether such a thing as “digital society” exists), although without any specific focus on MMOs.

If you believe it may help you, you can have a look at my thesis. Feel free to contact me through PM in that case.

@ Jornophelanthas

The PM system is being pretty fickle with me right now, but I am very interested in your thesis! There may be some great stuff there on digital citizenship in general that I could reference. It’s so exciting to hear that someone else has delved into the subject.

@pptkreg:
I just sent you a PM. I do not wish to post any personal contact information on the forum for all to see.