I play therefore i am: Sid meier's civilization, turn-based strategy games and the cogito

Games and Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 254-275

  Voorhees, Gerald A ^a,b  

^a HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cogito; Computer games; Interaction; Sid Meier's Civilization; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651114177     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412009339728     Document Type: Article

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