Penguin Life: A Case Study of One Tween

Authors

  • Diana Burley The George Washington University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v3i2.1894

Keywords:

tween, virtual world, Club Penguin, identity

Abstract

Although we are increasingly aware of what young people do online and perhaps even why they do it, we are less clear about how particular affordances of an online environment enables identity formation. Accordingly, this case study sought to explore how one tween
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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2010): Virtual Worlds for Kids

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Research-in-brief papers

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