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What is Role-Playing Games (RPGs)

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Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Games in which players are requested to assume a new imaginary identity, a life-conduct coherent with that identity, and to accept rules and roles that allow the community to survive. The goal of role gaming is more than winning. It is being someone people long to be (see e.g., Douse & McManus, 1993).
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Post-Modern Tribes as a Marketing Tool
Laura A. Ripamonti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) and Armando Cirrincione (Università Bocconi, Italy)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch163
Abstract
In 1994, Peters (1994) claimed that we are experiencing crazy times and that calls for crazy organizations. As a matter of fact, we are embedded into a complex and “transitional” historical phase, that philosophers and social scientists define “post-modernity.” This phase is characterized by a progressive skepticism towards the exasperated individualism generated by the liberation movements and towards the rationalism of the modern period. This shifting of perspective does not crystallize in any specific movement, but, on the contrary, it is a mosaic composed by a plurality of different ideologies.
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