{"product_id":"live-online-chess-social-features-downsides","title":"Live Online Chess: Social Features \u0026 Downsides","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book features social network analysis of the author's live rated online chess games with various players (including high and middle-strength computer software) from different time zones and cultures around the world. For most of them the social features and downsides of real-time online chess were investigated and documented, including social magnetism, gambling, anonymity and use of pseudonyms, nationalism, Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) issues, Islamophobia, and social stratification and mobility. The accompanying game annotations and post-game discussions mainly dwell on responsible participation and civil discourse using live online chess games as medium. Online chess has become a test case for us as an international\/trans-national group to think about how we can live in a socially-differentiated society, where its members subscribe to a plurality of forms of knowledge arising from considerably different environments, experiences and genetic makeup.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jose Fadul","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44275234570401,"sku":"9781300228240","price":83.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1mwkdepz-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1748394530","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/live-online-chess-social-features-downsides","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}