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Digitally possessed

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Virtual possessions play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. How we think about them and deal with them is changing the way we think and interact with others.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 5
        May 2012
        112 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/2160718
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