TY  - JOUR
A1  - Olbertz-Siitonen, Margarethe
A1  - Piirainen-Marsh, Arja
A1  - Siitonen, Marko
T1  - Constructing co-presence through shared VR gameplay
T2  - Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics
N2  - This study analyzes how participants playing VR games construct co-presence and shared gameplay. The analysis focuses on in­stances of play where one person is wearing the VR equipment, and other participants are located nearby without the ability to directly interact with the game. We first show how the active player using the VR equipment draws on talk and embodied activity to signal their presence in the shared physical environment, while simul­taneously conducting actions in the virtual space, and thus creates spaces for the other participants to take part in gameplay. Second, we describe how other participants draw on the contextual config­urations of the moment in displaying co-presence and position themselves as active and consequential co-players. The analysis demonstrates how gameplay can be communicatively con­structed even in situations where the participants have differential rights and possibilities to act and influence the game.
KW  - conversation
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - co-presence
KW  - shared gameplay
KW  - single player games
KW  - VR-games
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65160
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-651600
SN  - 2569-6491
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
SP  - 85
EP  - 122
PB  - Institut für Deutsche Sprache
CY  - Mannheim
ER  -