The social and cultural significance of online gaming

Online Gaming in Context: The social and cultural significance of online games

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3-22

  Crawford, Garry ^a,b   Gosling, Victoria K ^a   Light, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Salford Digital Cluster   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203869598-2     Document Type: Chapter

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