Virtual worlds as cultural models

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bainbridge, William Sims ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Game; Virtual world

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL MODELS; CULTURE; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; GAME; MATRIX; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; STAR TREKS; STAR WARS; VIRTUAL WORLD; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STARS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79955060029     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1858948.1858951     Document Type: Article

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