Being in the World (of Warcraft): Raiding, realism, and knowledge production in a massively multiplayer online game

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-46

  Golub, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge production; Phenomenology; Raiding; Second life; Video games; Virtual worlds; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950156938     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.0.0110     Document Type: Article

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