Knowing and throwing mudballs, hearts, pies, and flowers: A connective ethnography of gaming practices

Games and Culture

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-115

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Insider knowledge; Social practices; Tracking data; Tweens; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949474239     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412009351263     Document Type: Article

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