An overview of ethical and social issues in shared virtual environments

Futures

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 704-717

  Schroeder, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34147125941     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2006.11.009     Document Type: Article

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