Social Media Interactions and Online Games - Building up New Human Relationships in Danube Region

• Main Author: Predrag K Nikolić
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2015-08-01
• Series: Journal of Danubian Studies and Research
• Subjects: social interactions; online games; virtual environments; interactivity; co-creation; human-centered design; social sustainability
• Online Access: http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/research/article/view/2925/2480

In this paper we are trying to explore possibilities of using online environment, multiplayer gaming culture and social media networks to engage people in the Danube Region around social, multi-cultural and environment initiatives. The Danube Region online community could become a new cultural phenomena, technology mediated, built on human interactions, common interests and cultural heritage which open space for future humancentered social and infrastructural design initiatives. We believe that such social media environment could also be a research playground where people form Danube Region may express their needs and desires as well as to leave the trace of their behavior, significant for further Danube Region development.