Is Electronic Community an Addictive Substance? An Ethnographic Offering from the EverQuest Community

Florence Chee; Robert Smith

Is Electronic Community an Addictive Substance? An Ethnographic Offering from the EverQuest Community

Florence Chee
, Robert Smith

Research output: Other contribution

Abstract

This study reports on ethnographic fieldwork from “inside” the EverQuest community, including participant observation and in-depth interviews concerning the experience of becoming a member of the EverQuest community.

Original language	American English
State	Published - Apr 2005

Keywords

Gaming
Ethnography
Electronic community
Identity
Gaming addiction

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences
Psychology
Clinical Psychology

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