Pressure to play: Social pressure in online multiplayer games
通过访谈21名玩家，研究在线多人游戏中社会压力如何导致过度游戏，区分了三种压力形式：游戏朋友间的说服、层级游戏群体的义务、高度竞争群体的强制。
Videogames cause public concerns about excessive gaming and the neglect of social relationships and obligations. This paper develops an empirically grounded, sociological explanation to understand excessive gaming. Theorizing that online multiplayer games encourage social capital acquisition, it is studied if, how and why social control is exerted over individual players. Based on in-depth interviews with 21 players three forms of social pressure are distinguished: social persuasion among gaming friends; social obligation in hierarchically structured game-groups; and social coercion in highly competitive game-groups. Hence, technologically enhanced in-game networks exert pressure on individual players and compete with offline social networks and obligations.