by Kelly Bergstrom
about Kelly Bergstrom
Kelly Bergstrom is an assistant professor of communication at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research examines drop-out and disengagement from digital cultures, with a focus on digital games. She is co-editor of Internet Spaceships are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader. Previously she was a postdoctoral fellow at York University’s Institute for Research on Digital Learning and a MITACS postdoctoral researcher at Big Viking Games.
EVE Online
Abstract: Cheating—the act of gaining an unfair advantage—has always gone hand in hand with analog and digital gameplay. Using EVE Online as a case study, Kelly Bergstrom illustrates how definitions of cheating are contingent on a game’s player community, and that actions deemed to be illicit by some will be seen by others as being an integral element of that gaming experience.