Does WoW change everything?: How a PvP Server, multinational player base, and surveillance mod scene caused me pause

Games and Culture

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 318-337

  Taylor, T L ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Computer games; MMOG; Modding; Online community

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247361900     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412006292615     Document Type: Article

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