Social network analysis in virtual environments

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 317-321

  Rosen, Devan ^b   Corbit, Margaret ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Internet relay chat; Multi user virtual environments; Social networks; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; INTERNET RELAY CHAT; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERNET; RELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 70450209305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1557914.1557967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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