A survey of video game players in a public, urban research university

Educational Media International

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 311-327

  Thirunarayanan, M O ^a   Vilchez, Manuel ^a   Abreu, Liala ^a   Ledesma, Cyntianna ^a   Lopez, Sandra ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits of playing video games; Digital video games; Gender differences in playing video games; Hispanic game players; Skills learned by playing games; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959791532     PISSN: 09523987     EISSN: 14695790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09523987.2010.535338     Document Type: Article

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