Games and Digital Culture… What Lies Behind on-line Games?
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This article is the result of research work (still in progress) on state of the art Mass Multiplayers Online Games (mmolg), in an attempt to build a theoretical and methodological descriptive framework of mmolgs that synthesizes the main approaches and problems susceptible of study on the knowledge so far produced vis-à-vis this cultural phenomenon. The research team is constituted by lecturers in charge of four research groups of the School of Language and Communications, i.e. Language and Cognition; Information Sciences, Society, and Culture; Communications and Media, Culture, and Learning; and Information Society.
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