Life in the times of Whypox: A virtual epidemic as a community event

Proceedings of the 3rd Communities and Technologies Conference, C and T 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 171-190

  Kafai, Yasmin B ^a   Feldon, David ^b   Fields, Deborah ^a   Giang, Michael ^a   Quintero, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY NORMS; EMERGENT PHENOMENON; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; SOCIAL PRACTICES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84882973926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-905-7_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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