Born to Run: A Grounded Theory Study of Cheating in the Online Speedrunning Community

<p>Video games represent a growing genre of media quickly becoming one of the leading forms of entertainment (Jordan, 2014). This popularity has allowed new playstyles to emerge across the video game genre, such as e-Sports and speedrunning. In particular, the speedrunning community has somewhat redefined what it means to “cheat” in a video game by accepting the use certain software and hardware violations that could be seen as “cheating” to the general gaming community. This paper examined the social construction of cheating in this digital community through the use of grounded theory methods.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Criminal Justice

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Brewer, Christopher G

Contributors dc:contributor

• Joshua Hill
• Kimberly Chism
• Laura Gulledge

• speedrun
• online
• community
• video game
• cyber
• cheating
• Criminology
• Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
• Social Psychology and Interaction

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/311

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1337