Understanding "serious videogame" storyline and genre preferences related to game immersion among low-income ethnically diverse urban and rural adolescents

Internet Issues: Blogging, the Digital Divide and Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 177-188

  Thompson, Victoria ^a   Thompson, Debbe ^b   Baranowski, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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