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creators_name: Holovatch, Y.
creators_name: Mryglod, O.
creators_name: Szell, M.
creators_name: Thurner, S.
creators_id: 1918
title: Analyses of a virtual world
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abstract: We present an overview of a series of results obtained from the analysis of human behavior in a virtual environment. We focus on the massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) Pardus which has a worldwide participant base of more than 400,000 registered players. We provide evidence for striking statistical similarities between social structures and human-action dynamics in real and virtual worlds. In this sense MMOGs provide an extraordinary way for accurate and falsifiable studies of social phenomena. We further discuss possibilities to apply methods and concepts developed in the course of these studies to analyse oral and written narratives.
date: 2016
date_type: published
publisher: Springer International Publishing
id_number: 10.1007/978-3-319-39445-9_7
creators_browse_id: 307
full_text_status: none
series: Understanding Complex Systems
place_of_pub: Cham, Switzerland
pagerange: 115-130
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-319-39445-9
issn: 1860-0832
book_title: Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives
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fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
citation:   Holovatch, Y., Mryglod, O., Szell, M., & Thurner, S. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/307.html>  (2016).  Analyses of a virtual world.    In:  Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives.  pp. 115-130 Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.  ISBN 978-3-319-39445-9 10.1007/978-3-319-39445-9_7 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39445-9_7>.