Computer‐mediated communication (CMC) on the Internet has been claimed to possess a
degree of anonymity that makes the gender of online communicators irrelevant or invisible; …

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and
practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using …

A study of Everquest that provides a snapshot of multiplayer gaming culture, questions the
truism that computer games are isolating and alienating, and offers insights into broader …

From the Publisher: Beginning with an introduction to the Web and how it works, followed by
the theories and methods of cyberculture studies, Web. Studies moves on to consider …

Numerous studies have identified links among culture, user preferences, and Web site
usability. Most of these studies were reports of findings from a behavioral perspective in …

VTubers, or Virtual YouTubers, are live streamers who create streaming content using
animated 2D or 3D virtual avatars. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in …

This article explores issues of gender and video gaming, typically perceived as a masculine
practice, through case studies of two adult women gamers. Drawing on a conception of …

This article explores relationships between players and the owners of the massively
multiplayer online games (MMOG) they inhabit. Much of the language around these large …

This encyclopedia, edited by the deputy director of the National Science Foundation's
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, compiles 186 articles on the maturing field of …

Over the last decade, video games have become one of the most significant forms of media
for the enculturation of youth, especially males. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation …