Mobile social gambling: Poker’s next frontier

Mobile Media and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 94-109

  Albarrán Torres, César ^a   Goggin, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

mobile media; online gambling; social gaming; social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002693061     PISSN: 20501579     EISSN: 20501587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2050157913506423     Document Type: Article

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