Online gaming activity has become a rather phenomenal practices and also has turned out to be one of today’s mostly adopted lifestyle especially amongst the youths or younger generations. As online gaming community emerged rampantly along with modern day’s growing interest in online gaming activity amongst youths’ population, this leads to a notion that the element of interaction within the online gaming community were more than just being “limited” to the virtual world. Instead, the form of interactions within these virtual online gaming communities had rather shifted into interpersonal processes which are bringing and connecting millions of online gamers across the globe even closer despite the geographical boundaries. As a matter of fact, it is from this phenomenon of online gaming and emergence of various virtual gaming communities that has eventually led to the formation of other social activities such as eSports, specific-gaming fanbases, game conferences and distinguished sub-cultures. However, with the rapid development in terms of social paradigms pertaining the online gaming communities, there is also a concern pertaining gender disparities, inequalities and conflicts between male and female gamers despite the preliminary assumptions that online gaming activities are contributing towards social solidarity and interaction which formed the existence of virtual communities. Some of the questions posed in understanding this online gaming community formation based on the social paradigms are how does the social interaction in the online gaming activities occurred? How do these online gamers maintain their social solidarity? and what is the cause of gender inequalities and conflicts in online gaming community at the first place? This paper attempts to uncover the rationale behind the virtual community development of online gamers based on three distinct social perspectives namely social interaction, social solidarity and gender inequalities.
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