What are people really saying in world of warcraft ® chat?

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 47, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Christopherson, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cyberlanguage; Gaming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861435440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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