Questioning video games' influence on CS interest

FDG 2009 - 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 272-278

  DiSalvo, Betsy James ^a   Bruckman, Amy ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Games; Informal education; Race

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL GAMES; GAMES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; TOTAL RESPONSE; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 77953574901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536513.1536561     Document Type: Conference Paper

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