African American males constructing computing identity

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2967-2970

  DiSalvo, Betsy ^a   Yardi, Sarita ^a   Guzdial, Mark ^a   McKlin, Tom ^b   Meadows, Charles ^c   Perry, Kenneth ^c   Bruckman, Amy ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Findings Group   (United States)

^c MOREHOUSE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American culture; Broadening participation in computing; Group identity; Masculinity; Video games

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE; BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING; GROUP IDENTITIES; MASCULINITY; PEER GROUPS; SOCIAL NORM; TECHNICAL RESOURCES; VIDEO-GAMES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79958133274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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