Touching the screen: A phenomenology of mobile gaming and the iPhone

Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 133-152

  Richardson, Ingrid ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84920577709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203127711     Document Type: Chapter

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