Where everybody knows your (screen) name: Online games as "third places"

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 885-909

  Steinkuehler, Constance A ^a,c   Williams, Dmitri ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c 528D Teacher Education Building   (United States)

^d 326 Lincoln Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMMUNICATIONS EFFECTS; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MEDIUM EFFECT; ON-LINE GAMES; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THIRD PLACES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 33750021793     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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