The cooperative work of gaming: Orchestrating a mobile SMS game

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 167-198

  Crabtree, Andy ^a   Benford, Steve ^a   Capra, Mauricio ^a   Flintham, Martin ^a   Drozd, Adam ^a   Tandavanitj, Nick ^b   Adams, Matt ^b   Row Farr, Ju ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Blast Theory Unit 43a Regent Studios   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative work; Ethnography; Mobile games; Orchestration; SMS text messages

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATA TRANSFER; MESSAGE PASSING;

ETHNOGRAPHY; MOBILE GAME; ORCHESTRATION WORK; TEXT MESSAGES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 34248573938     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: 15737551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-007-9048-1     Document Type: Article

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