More than just ‘XP’: learning social skills in massively multiplayer online games

Interactive Technology and Smart Education

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-100

  Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^a   Moore, Robert J ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Online games; Social behavior; Social learning; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993099127     PISSN: 17415659     EISSN: 17588510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17415650580000035     Document Type: Article

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