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CSCW
2008
ACM
15 years 4 days ago
A hybrid cultural ecology: world of warcraft in China
We analyze online gaming as a site of collaboration in a digital-physical hybrid. We ground our analysis in findings from an ethnographic study of the online game World of Warcraf...
Silvia Lindtner, Bonnie A. Nardi, Yang Wang 0005, ...
FPLAY
2008
14 years 12 months ago
Construction of cybertypes in Lineage II: an analysis of game interfaces and support documentation
This paper discusses social exclusion by analyzing the avatar creation interface of the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) Lineage II. We use a previously deve...
Victoria McArthur, Tyler M. Pace, Aaron R. Houssia...
WWW
2006
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Invisible participants: how cultural capital relates to lurking behavior
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Vladimir Soroka, Sheizaf Rafaeli
FDG
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Robust resource allocation in a massive multiplayer online gaming environment
The environment considered in this research is a massive multiplayer online gaming (MMOG) environment. Each user controls an avatar (an image that represents and is manipulated by...
Luis Diego Briceno, Howard Jay Siegel, Anthony A. ...
NETGAMES
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
On correctness of scalable multi-server state replication in online games
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) require novel, scalable network architectures for a high amount of participating players in huge game worlds. Consequently, new and compl...
Jens Müller 0004, Andreas Gössling, Serg...