Befriending ogres and wood-elves: Relationship formation and the social architecture of norrath

Game Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Yee, Nick ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Online Games; Social Architectures; Social Engineering; Social Interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749341685     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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