Sex, lies and video games

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 489-501

  Kearney, Paul ^a,b   Pivec, Maja ^c,d  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c University of Applied Sciences   (Austria)

^d FH JOANNEUM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME BASED LEARNING; GAME CONTENTS; GAMING COMMUNITY; VIDEO GAMES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CURRICULA; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 34247386338     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00712.x     Document Type: Article

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