Transgressive gender play: Profiles and portraits of girl players in a tween virtual world

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kafai, Yasmin B ^a   Fields, Deborah ^b   Giang, Michael T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatar; Gender; Participation; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

AVATAR; BORDER CROSSINGS; CULTURAL NORMS; GENDER; NON-TRADITIONAL; PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL NORM; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

GAME THEORY; PROFITABILITY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84873383408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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