Networks of WoW gamers, Etsy crafters to be focus of new study of creative collaborations

Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 15:35 in Mathematics & Economics

Using two of the planet's largest, creative online communities -- World of Warcraft gamers and Etsy artists -- as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive, networked collaborations could benefit scientists, corporations and the very IT designers who facilitated the success of the two online communities.

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