Video games for entertainment and education

Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 471-489

  Ritterfeld, Ute ^a   Weber, René ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84906137707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203873700     Document Type: Chapter

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