Saturday, January 11, 2014

World of Warcraft and SNA

I used to play MMORPGs a lot and didn't even suspect that this kind of games can be more than only all your free time and money consumers. Nowadays using SNA in World of Warcraft scientists research how diseases spread.
In 2005 and 2008 I had a lot of fun participating in "Corrupted Blood incident" and "Great Zombie Plague" events in WoW, which became a basis of plenty researches especially in the epidemiology.

wiki: Corrupted Blood incident
Researchers study World of Warcraft plague
World of Warcraft Shines Light on Terror Tactics

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