Looking For Group: Exploring How Youth Build Peer Relationships in Online Gaming Communities
| dc.contributor.author | Gulley, Gabriel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-10T13:49:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-10T13:49:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research will lay the foundation for future research to help understand how youth form peer relationships in various online gaming communities. This research was conducted by completing a thematic content analysis of five YouTube videos from five different online gaming communities, aiming to identify any activities or experiences are important for meeting and making friends in online gaming spaces. This research found that there are several thematic activities or experiences that are important when meeting new people in their respective online gaming spaces. These included what a player should and should not do to form and keep peer relationships with others met online as well as potential experiences that should be had to help them grow. These experiences and activities fall under several different themes. A few of these themes are “Be Kind”, “Share”, “Be Social/Participate”, as well as several others. This research finds that there are overarching themes for youth making friends in online gaming communities from the videos analyzed. While many of the themes identified do cross the gaming communities studied in this thesis, much more research needs to be done before any definitive patterns or differences can be confirmed for online gaming communities as a whole. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ec.msvu.ca/handle/10587/2361 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mount Saint Vincent University | |
| dc.title | Looking For Group: Exploring How Youth Build Peer Relationships in Online Gaming Communities | |
| dc.type | Thesis |