Stealing from grandma or generating cultural knowledge? Contestations and effects of cheats in a tween virtual world

3rd Digital Games Research Association International Conference: "Situated Play", DiGRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 194-202

  Fields, Deborah A ^a   Kafai, Yasmin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheats; Economy; Learning; Situated play

Indexed keywords

CHEATS; CULTURAL ARTIFACTS; CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE; ECONOMY; GAINING ACCESS; LEARNING; MULTI-USER GAMES; ONLINE LEARNING; SITUATED PLAY; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 58149340743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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