To dwell among gamers: Investigating the relationship between social online game use and gaming-related friendships

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-115

  Domahidi, Emese ^a   Festl, Ruth ^b   Quandt, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Friendships; Modality switching; Social embeddedness; Social gaming motives; Social online gaming

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; SWITCHING;

BONDING SOCIAL CAPITALS; FRIENDSHIPS; ON-LINE GAMING; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS; SOCIAL GAMING; SWITCHING PROCESS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84896906153     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.023     Document Type: Article

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