Can You Hear Me Now? The Impact of Voice in an Online Gaming Community

Autor/inn/en	Williams, Dmitri; Caplan, Scott; Xiong, Li
Titel	Can You Hear Me Now? The Impact of Voice in an Online Gaming Community
Quelle	In: Human Communication Research, 33 (2007) 4, S.427-449 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-3989
DOI	10.1111/j.1468-2958.2007.00306.x
Schlagwörter	Computer Mediated Communication; Social Capital; Information Processing; Games; Computers; Statistical Analysis; Information Technology; Internet; Online Systems; Comparative Analysis; Auditory Stimuli; Reader Text Relationship; Experiments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computerkonferenz; Sozialkapital; Informationsverarbeitung; Game; Spiel; Spiele; Digitalrechner; Statistische Analyse; Informationstechnologie; Online; Auditive Stimulation; Erprobung
Abstract	This paper reports the results of a controlled field experiment in which voice communication was introduced into an existing online community (online gaming guilds within the popular game "World of Warcraft"), comparing a mix of voice and text with text only. Quantitative results suggest increases in liking and trust due to the addition of voice, as well as insulation from unexpected negative impacts of text-only play. The findings are discussed with respect to social capital, cyberbalkanization, and the general computer-mediated communication literature, with special attention paid to social information processing theory. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10