Naming virtual identities: Patterns and inspirations for character names in world of warcraft

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6972 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 270-281

  Thurau, Christian ^a   Drachen, Anders ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IAIS   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

avatar; character; online identity; WORLD OF WARCRAFT

Indexed keywords

AVATAR; CHARACTER; COMPUTER GAME; DATA SETS; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; ON-LINE SERVICE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE IDENTITY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOURCES OF INSPIRATIONS; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; STATISTICS; INTERNET; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 82055178433     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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