New media theory: Electronic games, democracy and reconfiguring the author-audience relationship

Social Semiotics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-191

  Cover, Rob ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Democratisation; Electronic games; Interactivity; Narrative; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845366691     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1035033042000238268     Document Type: Article

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