Focused on the prize: Characteristics of experts in massive multiplayer online games

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Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Jing ^a,b   Huffaker, David A ^c   Treem, Jeffrey W ^b   Fullerton, Lindsay ^b   Ahmad, Muhammad A ^d   Williams, Dmitri ^e   Poole, Marshall Scott ^a   Contractor, Noshir ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism   (United States)

^f Northwestern University   (United States)

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EID: 80053509481     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v16i8.3672     Document Type: Article

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