In this essay, I examine differences between individual and social play and, in particular, the differences between individual and social play within digital media forms designed ...
Mobile phones offer a variety of interesting and exciting applications. A mobile phone can be a communication device, an entertainment device, and a learning device. J2ME is a pop...
We think that Massively Multi-user Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) will soon evolve into Online Societies of political and economic interest. Studying them will require a metho...
Anonymity is one of the main virtues of the Internet, as it protects privacy and enables users to express opinions more freely. However, anonymity hinders the assessment of the ve...
Michael Sirivianos, Kyungbaek Kim, Jian Wei Gan, X...
Next generation Web 2.0 communities and distributed P2P systems rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations spread across numerous administrative and security domains. Zero...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Kevin C. Almeroth, Ben Y. Zha...