A picture is worth a thousand words: an empirical study on the influence of content visibility on diffusion processes within a virtual world
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A picture is worth a thousand words: an empirical study on the influence of content visibility on diffusion processes within a virtual world Jarosław Jankowski, Piotr Bródka and Juho Hamari Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland; Department of Computational Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland; Game Research Lab, School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Behaviour & IT
دوره 35 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016