The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Girls and Marginalized Developers
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by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/si.2010.33.4.603. The Virtuality of Virtual Worlds, or What We Can Learn from Playacting Horse Girls and Marginalized Developers
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تاریخ انتشار 2010