Economic activities in and around online gaming in China are often correlated in the West with practices of gold farming, or selling in-game currency to players for real money in online games. What can we learn about online gaming in China and about online gaming and online sociality more broadly when we look at economic and other “pragmatic” practices through which online gaming becomes meanin...

Vinod Sasidharan and Brijesh Thapa the purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model to examine the socio-structural and socio-psychological construct of wildlife concern within ethnic populations, by employing environmental concern paradigms. In this paper, wildlife concern will be operationalized as wildlife relevant behavior influenced by environmental (including wildlife) attitude ...

Eastern Europe has been recognized as a region that has experienced major socio-political and economic changes in the last decades. The impact of these transitions on families and their functioning has also been significant. Although understanding of families in different cultures in the last years has considerably increased, little has been written on Eastern European families. This book fills...