Living in the Hutt Space: Immersive process in the Star Wars Role-Play community of Second Life

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1681-1691

  Guitton, Matthieu J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avatar; Social density; Social interactions; Star Wars; Virtual community; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

AVATAR; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; STAR WARS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

STARS;

EID: 84863723196     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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