Escapist Motives for On-line Gaming and Strengthening of Weak Ties

Frantisek Sudzina; Liana Razmerita

Escapist Motives for On-line Gaming and Strengthening of Weak Ties

Frantisek Sudzina, Liana Razmerita

Aarhus University

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Abstract

Due to advances of technology including faster and ubiquitously accessible Internet connection, on-line gaming have grown tremendously in the last couple of years. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether escapist motives for playing games are linked to strengthening of weak ties through on-line gaming. The research investigates Facebook and other on-line games separately. A surprising result is that while most of the investigated escapist motives are positively correlated with strengthening of weak ties, the mundane breaking motive is negatively correlated with strengthening of weak ties.

Original language	English
Publication date	2012
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	The IX Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS: Organization Change and Information Systems: Working and Living Together in New Ways - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rom, Italy Duration: 28 Sept 2012 → 29 Sept 2012 Conference number: 9 http://www.itais.org/itais2012/

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Conference	The IX Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS
Number	9
Location	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rom
Period	28/09/2012 → 29/09/2012
Internet address	http://www.itais.org/itais2012/

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Paper also presented at The 25th Bled eConference. 2012 : eDependability: Reliable and Trustworthy eStructures, eProcesses, eOperations and eServices for the Future. Jun. 17-20, 2012. Bled, Slovenien.

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