A content analysis of interviews with players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Play Games (MMORPGs): Motivating factors and the impact on relationships

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5621 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 613-621

  Taylor, Jacqui ^a   Taylor, James ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Content Analysis; MMORPGs; Motivation; Relationships; Social Identity Theory; Social Psychology

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; MMORPGS; ONLINE AND OFFLINE RELATIONSHIPS; ONLINE SURVEYS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONAL IDENTITY; PILOT STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRE DATA; ROLE PLAY; SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORIES; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 76649144164     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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