Second life: The future of social networking?

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

Volumn 5322 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 18-27

  Shore, Malcolm ^a   Zhou, Qinglan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Second life; Social networks; WOSP

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; FACEBOOK; SECOND LIFE; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TECHNICAL SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77949355181     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02276-0_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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