The Subjectivity Construction of Digital Gamer in Symbolic Interactionism
Digital game is an open symbolic field and playing digital game is a creative signifying practice.By focusing on the self-presentation and emotional narrative of gamer who is the main action subject of meaning construction in the game world and through semiotic analysis and semi-structured interviews,it is suggested that the gamer trend to establish the"transitional self'by avatar identification and objectification as well as construct the interactive subjectivity of"social self"by interactive action and meaning sharing.Furthermore,they can shape collective identity and"cultural self"by community symbol co-creation and interaction rituals and form a"right-subjectivity"to resist digital capitalism in the real-time or indirect symbolic struggle and feedback.By using and creating symbols,gamers not only promote the development of the game world,but also construct and evolve their self-concepts,social relations,and group identity.
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