Griefing in virtual worlds: Causes, casualties and coping strategies

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 525-548

  Chesney, Thomas ^a   Coyne, Iain ^a   Logan, Brian ^a   Madden, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisocial behaviour; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350099829     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2009.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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