Immersive role of non-required social actions in virtual settings: The example of trade role-play in the Second Life Gorean community

Design Principles and Practices

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 209-219

  Guitton, Matthieu J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avatar; Gorean; Role play; Social density; Social interactions; Virtual communities; Virtual settings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855558948     PISSN: 18331874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18848/1833-1874/cgp/v05i01/38012     Document Type: Review

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