A hybrid cultural ecology: World of Warcraft in China

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 371-381

  Lindtner, Silvia ^a   Nardi, Bonnie ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Mainwaring, Scott ^b   Jing, He ^c   Liang, Wenjing ^d  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Ethnography; Games; Hybrid ecology; Mixed reality; Virtual worlds; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES; CULTURAL ECOLOGY; CULTURAL VALUE; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HYBRID ECOLOGY; INTERNET CAFES; MIXED REALITY; ON-LINE GAMES; ON-LINE GAMING; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; VIRTUAL GAMES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ECOLOGY; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950821271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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