Doors to another me: Identity construction through digital game play

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-203

  Konijn, Elly A ^a   Bijvank, Marije Nije ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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