Distance matters: Exploring proximity and homophily in virtual world networks

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 969-977

  Huang, Yun ^a   Shen, Cuihua ^b   Contractor, Noshir S ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance; Homophily; Online games; Proximity; Virtual collaboration; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE; HOMOPHILY; ON-LINE GAMES; PROXIMITY; VIRTUAL COLLABORATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84884201874     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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