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Identity in the millennium: software, meaning and African-American girls' identity

Black, Ella
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1092416603

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2004, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Policy and Leadership.
In the millennium, computer games have become more sophisticated. Advances in computer technology allow designers to place greater emphasis on creating a new wave of games and characters that children identify quite closely with. Nancy Drew CD-ROM role-playing games are instrumental in this new wave of computer gaming. In this study, it was observed that influential aspects of the Nancy Drew game played a significant role in shaping African-American girls’ social and academic identities, causing moments of double shifting to occur. Double shifting asserts that African-American girls’ shift when they negotiate issues of race and gender and further explains ways in which they transcend racial dissonance that exists between them and the Caucasian-like character they play. Using a qualitative methodology, this study explored African-American girls’ and teachers’ perspectives about the cultural phenomenon of a Nancy Drew CD-ROM: “Secrets Can Kill” and the dynamics of identity development.
William Taylor (Advisor)
199 p.
Education, Technology
Education, Computer Technology, African-American Girls, Identity Development, &; Teachers, Computers, and Schools

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  • Black, E. (2004). Identity in the millennium: software, meaning and African-American girls' identity [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1092416603

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Black, Ella. Identity in the millennium: software, meaning and African-American girls' identity. 2004. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1092416603.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Black, Ella. "Identity in the millennium: software, meaning and African-American girls' identity." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1092416603

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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