Two players: Biography and played sociality in Ever Quest

Game Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Simon, Bart ^a   Boudreau, Kelly ^b   Silverman, Mark ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biography; Cultural sociology; EverQuest; Interviewing; Players

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949107074     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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