Modeling destructive group dynamics in online gaming communities

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 290-297

  Patil, Akshay ^a   Liu, Juan ^b   Price, Bob ^b   Sharara, Hossam ^c   Brdiczka, Oliver ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS DATA; GROUP DYNAMICS; ON-LINE GAMING; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL DOMAINS; SOCIAL GROUPS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84890595104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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