Gaming at a LAN event: The social context of playing video games

New Media and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-355

  Jansz, Jeroen ^a,c   Martens, Lonneke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Audax Media   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Interactive media; LAN event; Motives; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444451357     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444805052280     Document Type: Review

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