Contested Rituals in Virtual Worlds

Ritual, Media, and Conflict

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Heidbrink, Simone ^a   Miczek, Nadja ^b   Radde Antweiler, Kerstin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Church of fools; Conflict; Media; Online ritual; Second life; The internet; World of warcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889014844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735235.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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