Among pasta-loving mafiosos, drug-selling Columbians and noodle-eating triads - Race, humour and interactive ethics in Grand Theft Auto III

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dymek, Mikolaj ^a   Lennerfors, Thomas ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethics; Grand Theft Auto 3; Humour; Race

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; GRAND THEFT AUTO 3; HUMOUR; INTERACTIVITY; RACE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; VIDEO GAME;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

CRIME;

EID: 84873376354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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