Nick Yee, “The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-and How They Don’t” (Yale UP, 2014)New Books in SociologyThe image of online gaming in popular culture is that of an addictive pastime, mired in escapism. And the denizens of virtual worlds are thought to be mostly socially awkward teenaged boys. In his new...12 years agoNick Yee, “The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us-and How They Don’t” (Yale UP, 2014)New Books in Sociology0:00 / 0:00Use this feed in your RSS readerCopy the publisher’s public feed URL, or build an OPML reading list for another reader.Copy RSS URL Open RSS feed · Find feeds & export OPMLKeep up with this sourceFollow this sourceKeep this source in your dashboard and return to its latest articles. Email alerts are managed separately in Settings.FetchFeeds groups articles by feed so you can follow sources, compare coverage, and save stories for later.Back to all articles from New Books in SociologyMore from this feedChoose another story from New Books in Sociology.Paul-Brian McInerney, “From Social Movement to Moral Market: How the Circuit Riders Sparked an IT Revolution and Created a Technology Market” (Stanford UP, 2014)Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)Betsy Leondar-Wright, “Missing Class” (Cornell UP, 2014)Patricia Ventura, “Neoliberal Culture: Living With American Neoliberalism” (Ashgate, 2012)Michael Salter, “Organised Sexual Abuse” (Routledge, 2012)danah boyd, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” (Yale UP, 2014)Leah Hager Cohen, “No Book But the World” (Riverhead Books, 2014)William Davies “The Limits of Neo-Liberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition” (Sage,