"Blacks deserve bodies too!" Design and discussion about diversity and race in a tween online world

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 269-277

  Kafai, Yasmin B ^a   Cook, Melissa S ^a   Fields, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent development; Avatars; Identity; Participatory culture; Race

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AVATARS; IDENTITY; RACE; RACIAL DIVERSITY; SECOND LIFE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; UNIQUE FEATURES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 59849103076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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