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With the connectivity of the modern world and mediums like skype and gaming, could local accents begin to fade out?

Hi social scientists, I've been sort of scratching my head this afternoon trying to put a locality to my accent after someone asked me what accent I had. I realised that my accent didn't at all fit with the accents of other locals in my area and when I first arrived at university the same problem arose in that nobody could tell where I was from. So after a bit of thought I came up with the theory that I may have pieced together an accent from years of talking to people online, I'm 20 now and from about age 12-16 I played a ton of world of warcraft, this meant skyping with 19 other guys from all over Europe almost every night for around 5 hours a night. I'm wondering if I picked up on different pronunciations and accents from here and pieced it together into the way I talk today. I don't mean to say that regional accents would die out atall but I'm from Somerset in England and I have an alien accent for the area. So my question is, Is this the case? could increased connectivity in the world begin to create broader accents? and is there any published research into the subject? Many thanks! :)
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the latest research into the effect of online virtual communities suggest that the rate of accentation is accelerating. world of Warcraft and eve online are developing their own unique dialects that tend to isolate the communities.