Konstruksi Realitas Kehidupan Kedua Pemain Game Online: Studi pada Para Pemain Game Online dalam Membentuk Realitas dan Komunitas Virtual

摘要

Through the development information technologies, online gaming has become a means ofcommunication and interaction between people. They build a virtual social world between them. The problem ofthis research is how the online game players build they second or secondary lives, particulary how they createsecond communities, identity, and space in virtual world. This research use qualitative method. The informantsare from the online game player aand the data obtained from observation and interview. The results are secondlives has a meaning as parallel wolrd that build as a the first world. This live is represents the imagination of theindividual fantasy world that provided by online gaming developers.