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WHY PROFESSIONAL WRESTLERS, COMPANIES AND FANS CLASH ON THE BATTLEGROUNDS OF...

In recent years it has become common place for professional wrestling companies to harness the power of social media sites in order to maintain their hyperreal universes. They do so through the use of...

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The blurring of the boundaries between corporeal and virtual communities...

  Introduction When Berners-Lee listed the World Wide Web in the public domain (CERN, 2003), the internet became a sensational phenomenon worldwide and it is now used extensively in every aspect of our...

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Playing Games and maintaining Online Communities wins our response before...

  Playing Games and maintaining Online Communities wins our response before face2face time Peering into the soul of man there is a common space in all of us, where we yearn for acceptance and a sense...

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Identities in Online Communities and Networks: Everyone is more than one.

Identities in Online Communities and Networks: Everyone is more than one. The invention of the Internet is considered by many to have revolutionized the world. With it came the whole new concept of the...

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“Chicken Wars”: A Second Life Genocide.

This paper is available for download as a PDF – “Chicken Wars”: A Second Life Genocide. During 2008-2010 approximately 100,000 bot-controlled avatars in the virtual world of Second Life were...

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Facebook and Identity

Facebook has become ingrained in the majority of individual’s daily lives. The social networking site allows people to stay informed with the daily lives of friends and family, and it also allows those...

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Facilitating community building through game design

Erick Godoy NET204 – RMIT University   The computer and video game industry, which was valued at over $16B in 2012 in the United States, has become a primary form of entertainment for people of all...

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Comment on Communities and Social Networks

Hi Meha, This is such a well written conference paper as the situtation between the Internet Communities and Social Networks were well described. It is no doubt that there is a radical and immense...

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How social networking websites, such as Facebook can benefit businesses?

The emergence of Web 2.0 and advancing technologies have allowed Internet users across the globe to communicate online unconstrained from our bodies, time and space. A new form of community has arisen...

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Facebook and the FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) Factor !!!

Facebook is often cited as the world’s largest network catering to over 900 million users. (Mashable, 2012). This outstanding success speaks to the changing relationship users have with technology. The...

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