Gaming on and off the social graph: The social structure of facebook games

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 627-632

  Kirman, Ben ^a   Lawson, Shaun ^a   Linehan, Conor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUT-OFF; FACEBOOK; NETWORK ANALYSIS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; POWER LAW; SCALE-FREE; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL PROPERTIES; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STAND -ALONE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 70849107125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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