Bridging the methodological divide in game research

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 447-463

  Williams, Dmitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Approaches; Ethnography; Experiment; Humanities; Methodology; Qualitative; Quantitative; Social science; Survey; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 28344448456     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878105282275     Document Type: Article

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