Examining barriers to political engagement and participation through online multiplayer games

对在线多人服务器中玩家的低调观察，检查那里发生的社会和政治过程。分析日常民主、成功的民主进程以及影响接触和参与的因素。侠盗猎汽车在线(以下简称GTA V Online)拥有数百台单独的服务器，其中一些服务器在Twitch等流媒体平台上吸引了多达100万观众。在这些空间中，个人扮演角色，参与民主进程，比如选举市长，进行日常政治对话，以及为改变他们的世界(或服务器)而进行的竞选活动，仅举几例。该项目旨在调查这一日益增长的在线空间，在这种空间中，社会和政治进程的参与度和参与度都很高，以探索与线下政府脱离和不信任相反的动机是什么。通过观察和对参与者的采访，该项目旨在强调是什么推动了对这一虚拟政治的高度参与，以提出线下引入民主进程的建议。

An unobtrusive observation of players in an online multiplayer server examining social and political processes which occur there. Analysis of everyday democracy, successful democratic processes and factors influencing engagement and participation. Grand Theft Auto Online (henceforth GTA V Online) boasts hundreds of individual servers with some attracting viewership as large as 1 million combined viewers on streaming platforms such as Twitch. In these spaces, individuals roleplay as characters and take part in democratic processes such as electing a mayor, having everyday political conversations, and campaigning for changes to their world (or sever) to name only few. This project aims to investigate this growing online space in which engagement and participation in social and political processes are high to explore what motivates this in contrast to disengagement and distrust of government offline. Using observation and interviews with players, this project will aim to highlight what drives high engagement in this virtual politics to present recommendations to import democratic process offline.