Girls playing games: Rethinking stereotypes

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Future Play, Future Play '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 9-16

  Jenson, Jennifer ^a   De Castell, Suzanne ^b   Fisher, Stephanie ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

digital game play; gender; girls; social issues

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL GAMES; EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT; EDUCATIONAL GAME; GAME PLAYING; GAME-BASED LEARNING; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; SOCIAL ISSUES; VIDEO GAME;

EDUCATION; RESEARCH;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 75749156725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328202.1328205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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