Throughout this entire documentary process, I learned a
great deal about discourse communities and the misconceptions outsiders
can have about such communities. When we started this project, and Jim first
mentioned studying the League of Legends club, I instantly envisioned small,
pale people that sat in their rooms all day and night, alone, starting at a
laptop screen, which was in part to the few people I knew that actively played
League of Legends. But after meeting the officers and general members of the
club during filming, I found out that almost every single player participates
in a wide variety of other activities. One member plays baseball and flies
airplanes, while the other plays golf, tennis and rides horses in her spare
time. Moreover, every single person we interviewed said that they play League
of Legends to interact with their friends, meaning they see it as a activity of
social interaction, not quiet isolation, as I had envisioned.
Learning these things about the members of the club made me
realize that my stereotypes were completely ridiculous, as they were not based
off of anything even remotely concrete. The process of creating this
documentary also helped me to be more open minded towards active players of any
game, which I sometimes have difficulty doing, since I was not permitted to
play any sort of video game growing up. Overall, I enjoyed the project
immensely and gained new insight, not only from a technological standpoint, but
also from a personal standpoint.
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