The role of onlookers in arcade gaming: Frame analysis of public behaviours

Convergence

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-137

  Lin, Holin ^a   Sun, Chuen Tsai ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

amusement arcade; Erving Goffman; gamers; gaming space; interactional frames; onlookers; presentation of self in public space; role playing; video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957892121     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856510397111     Document Type: Article

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