The social side of gaming: How playing online computer games creates online and offline social support

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 832-839

  Trepte, Sabine ^a   Reinecke, Leonard ^a   Juechems, Keno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bonding social capital; Bridging social capital; Clan; E sports; Online game; Social support

Indexed keywords

CLAN; E-SPORTS; ON-LINE GAMES; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SPORTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84857363004     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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