A new look at World of Warcraft's social landscape

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 174-179

  Schiano, Diane J ^a   Nardi, Bonnie ^b   Debeauvais, Thomas ^b   Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^c   Yee, Nicholas ^c  

^a ITP   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^c PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; Game studies; MMOs; Online sociality; Real life relationships; Social games; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHICS; GAME STUDIES; MMOS; ONLINE SOCIALITY; REAL-LIFE RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIAL GAMES; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84858971005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2159365.2159389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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