Profiling as a method of analyzing online gaming communities.
Abstract
Abstract: The following text deals with the research of gaming communities. It suggests profiling as a way of analyzing processes among the gaming groups. We understand the process of analyzing groups in terms of building gaming culture, roles within the group, group dynamics etc. In the text profiling is understood as a descriptive tool with certain analytic capabilities. The bulk of the article displays a particular profile of a gaming community – PrM Alliance from Bulgarian server Alpha of Ikariam.
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