Your second selves: Player-designed avatars

Games and Culture

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-42

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatars; Identity; Participatory culture; Situated play

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949428804     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412009351260     Document Type: Article

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