Determinants of Friendship in Social Networking Virtual Worlds

This paper examines the determinants of friendship between two users in a virtual world who are unaware of each other's real identities. Drawing on theories of homophily, heterophily and propinquity, three virtual world behaviours are analysed: avatar appearance, avatar location, and avatar com...

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Main Authors: Chesney, T., Chuah, S., Hui, Wendy, Hoffmann, R., Larner, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Association for Information Systems 2014
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Online Access:http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol34/iss1/72/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26710