Entering Farmville: Finding Value in Social Games

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Entering Farmville: Finding Value in Social Games

Social games—games that operate within social network sites (SNS) and draw on a user’s social graph—are a rapidly growing phenomena. According to AppData’s facebook applications report, Zynga’s social game, Farmville, as at the 15th March 2012, had 29,100,000 monthly active users (MAU) and 5,800,000...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Balnaves, Mark, Willson, Michele, Leaver, Tama
Other Authors:	C. Anyanwu
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	Australian and New Zealand Communication Association 2012
Subjects:	zynga data mining casual games social games facebook farmville
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11405

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