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Investigaming tag: Genre Console

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Dixon, shanly and Simon, Bart (2005)


DIGRA conference

Synopsis:

An ethnographic study of a small group of boys playing console games over several months was used to argue against a view of digital game space in terms of disjunctive other, parallel or virtual worlds (e.g. Foucault’s heterotopias). 

Keywords:

conference, children, console, player types, gaming social context , parents and gaming, spatial cognition

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