"Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• Publication date

  2006-04-22

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1145/1124772.1124834
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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