Facebook applications and playful mood: The construction of facebook as a "third place

MindTrek - 12th International MindTrek Conference: Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 8-12

  Rao, Valentina ^a  

^a Factory Girl Games   (Italy)

Author keywords

Casual games; Facebook applications; Playful mood; Social networks; Third places

Indexed keywords

CASUAL GAMES; DIGITAL GAMES; FACEBOOK; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349176746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1457199.1457202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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