A research team at the Pennsylvania State University is studying the communication styles of World of Warcraft roleplayers. You have been invited to participate.
Participation in this study is voluntary, and all responses will be confidential. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate. Although you may not benefit personally from the study, the results will help shed light on the unique forms of social interaction that roleplay in MMORPGs such as WoW enables and that are often overlooked by non-gamers.
The study consists of an analysis of text chat logs volunteered by roleplayers. As many chat logs as possible is preferred, but any are appreciated.
**The chat logs will not be shared, and any personally identifying information in them will be removed prior to analysis. (Character names will be replaced with codes.) Please feel free to delete any IRL identifiers and/or search and replace names with codes before submitting the chat logs.**
The WoW roleplay community’s collaboration will be acknowledged in any publications that result from the study.
The Bednar Digital Humanities research team at Penn State appreciates your participation.
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