The strategic female: Gender-switching and player behavior in online games

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 286-300

  Martey, Rosa Mikeal ^a   Stromer Galley, Jennifer ^b   Banks, Jaime ^c   Wu, Jingsi ^d   Consalvo, Mia ^e  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

avatars; digital worlds; gender; gender roles; identity; video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894228071     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.874493     Document Type: Article

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