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    Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming by Yasmin B. Kafai (Editor), Carrie Heeter (Editor), Jill Denner (Editor), Jennifer Y. Sun (Editor)

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    • Pub. Date: September 2008
    • 396pp
    • Sales Rank: 356,435

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      • Pub. Date: September 2008
      • Publisher: MIT Press
      • Format: Hardcover, 396pp
      • Sales Rank: 356,435

      Synopsis

      Girls and women as game players and game designers in the new digital landscape of massively multiplayer online games, "second lives," "modding," serious games, and casual games.

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      Biography

      Yasmin B. Kafai is a Professor of Learning Sciences at the Graduate School of Education at University of Pennsylvania. Her research has focused on children's learning as players and designers of educational software, video games, and virtual worlds. She has published Minds in Play (1995) and edited Constructionism in Practice (with Mitchel Resnick, 1996). She lives, plays, and works in Philadelphia.

      Carrie Heeter is Professor of Serious Game Design in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, and Creative Director for Virtual University Design and Technology at Michigan State University.

      Jill Denner is Senior Research Associate at ETR Associates, a nonprofit agency in California.

      Jennifer Y. Sun is President and a founder of Numedeon, Inc., the company that launched Whyville.net, an educational virtual world targeted at children ages 8 to 14.

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