A qualitative investigation of users’ discovery, access, and organization of video games as information objects

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of information science

• Publication date

  2016-12-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science, Education

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  DOI 10.1177/0165551515618594
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  Semantic Scholar

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