Boys' play in the fourth space: Freedom of movements in a tween virtual world

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Searle, Kristin A ^a   Kafai, Yasmin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Freedom of movement; Masculinity; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

BODY IMAGE; DESIGN ACTIVITY; FIELD NOTES; FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT; HOME-BASES; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MASCULINITY; OFFLINE; ON-LINE GAMING; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SOCIAL DIMENSIONS; THREE DIMENSIONS; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL SPACES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

GAME THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNATIONAL LAW; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84873397175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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