Girls creating games: Challenging existing assumptions about game content

Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 Conference: Changing Views - Worlds in Play

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Denner, Jill ^a   Bean, Steve ^a   Werner, Linda ^b  

^a ETR ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Gender; Girls

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; DESIGN GAMES; GENDER; GENDER ROLES; GIRLS; MIDDLE SCHOOL; REAL WORLD SETTING; SOCIAL ISSUES;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84873351489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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