From tree house to barracks: The social life of guilds in World of Warcraft

Games and Culture

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 338-361

  Williams, Dmitri ^a   Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^b   Xiong, Li ^a   Zhang, Yuanyuan ^a   Yee, Nick ^c   Nickell, Eric ^b  

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

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Guilds; MMO; Online community; Social capital; Social networks; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547556576     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412006292616     Document Type: Article

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