Online gaming: A scoping study of massively multi-player online role playing games

Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 3-26

  Meredith, Alex ^a   Hussain, Zaheer ^a   Griffiths, Mark D ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Massively multiplayer online games; Scoping study

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES; ON-LINE GAMES; ON-LINE GAMING; RESEARCH AGENDA; SCOPING; SCOPING STUDY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 65049090811     PISSN: 13895753     EISSN: 15729362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10660-009-9029-1     Document Type: Article

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