Argumentation quality in multiplayer game chat is an attribute of group interaction, not of individual utterances¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? In the WoW data, arguments extend over brief chat postings of multiple players reacting to each other, constituting a transactive, collaborative, or group argument presented by a sequence of interacting team members rather than an individual thinker. → Gerry Stahl 2013

Evidence¶

Gerry Stahl 2013¶

Gerry Stahl, Nancy Law & Friedrich Hesse. (2013). Reigniting CSCL flash themes. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 8:369–374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-013-9185-0

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The editors' interpretive analysis of the WoW argumentation data contrasts classical discussions of an individual's ideal mental chain of propositions with the observed "transactive, collaborative, or group argument" spread across multiple players' chat postings.

"In the data from WoW, the arguments extend over the brief chat postings of multiple players, reacting to each other. It is here a transactive, collaborative, or group argument, presented not by an individual thinker but by a sequence of interacting members of a team (guild) planning an action (quest)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Discussion thread length is strongly linearly related to the number of players contributing, indicating collective rather than small-group collaboration — related
• Disengaged teenage boys engaged in quality argumentation in 81% of their argumentative exchanges while chatting in World of Warfare — related
• Gamers' collaboration skills are specialized to the game environment and do not straightforwardly transfer to school learning — related