Swimming with mermaids: Communication and social density in the Second Life merfolk community

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 226-235

  Guitton, Matthieu J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avatar; Computer mediated communication; Merfolk; Social density; Social interactions; Virtual communities

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AVATAR; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; MERFOLK; SOCIAL DENSITIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84923343404     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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