Journal article
Collecting conversations: three approaches to obtaining user‐to‐user communications data from virtual environments
- Abstract:
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Transcripts of conversations are a valuable research resource in social sciences and can be used to make inferences about subjects’ behavior and intentions. Large-scale communications records can be coded and analyzed statistically for generalizable results. Virtual environments are a good place to gather communications records, because they exhibit a wide variety of subject behaviors However, compared to traditional channels such as forums and chat rooms, virtual environments can be more cha...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Virtual Worlds Institute, Inc. Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 4-22
- Publication date:
- 2011-05-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1941-8477
- Source identifiers:
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631626
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:631626
- Deposit date:
- 2016-07-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Mika Lehdonvirta et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- This article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (cc-by-nd: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/) license
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