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Why Do Teammates Hate Me? Cross-Cultural Tensions and Social Dynamics in Online Games

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We discuss the multi-ethnic tension and social dynamics behind toxicity in online game Dota 2. We present a player survey and preliminary analysis of user-generated keywords and future work in interpreting the survey results.

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CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion

February 2016

549 pages

ISBN:9781450339506

DOI:10.1145/2818052

General Chairs:
Darren Gergle
Northwestern University
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Meredith Ringel Morris
Microsoft Research
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Pernille Bjørn
University of Copenhagen
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Joseph Konstan
University of Minnesota

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Loria EAntelmi APirker J(2021)Comparing the Structures and Characteristics of Different Game Social Networks - The Steam Case2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)10.1109/CoG52621.2021.9619130(1-8)Online publication date: 17-Aug-2021
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Das Swain VReddy MNies KTay LDe Choudhury MAbowd G(2019)Birds of a Feather Clock TogetherProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33592673:CSCW(1-30)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019
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