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Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century : Literate Connections / edited by G. Hawisher, C. Selfe.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive psychology.
- Educational psychology.
- Education.
- Educational sociology.
- Communication.
- Sociology.
- Cognitive Psychology.
- Educational Psychology.
- Sociology of Education.
- Media and Communication.
- Local Subjects:
- Cognitive Psychology.
- Educational Psychology.
- Education.
- Sociology of Education.
- Media and Communication.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XIII, 273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume examines the claim that computer games can provide better literacy and learning environments than schools. Using case-studies in the US at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the words and observations of individual gamers, the book offers historical and cultural analyses of their literacy development, practices and values.
- Contents:
- Foreword / James P. Gee
- Introduction / Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe
- part I: Gaming and literacy. Computer gaming as literacy / Cynthia L.Selfe, Anne F. Mareck, and Josh Gardiner
- Transcultural literacies of gaming / Iswari P. Pandey, Laxman Pandey, and Angish Shreshtha
- Lost (and found) in translation : game localization, cultural models, and critical literacy / Erin Smith and Eve Deitsch
- Gaming, identity, and literacy / Daniel Keller with Paul Ardis, Vivienne Dunstan, Adam Thornton, Rachel Henry, and Brent Witty
- Interchapter I: What some girls say about gaming
- part II: The social dimensions of gaming. Narrative, action, and learning : the stories of Myst / Debra Journet
- Gaming, agency, and imagination : locating gaming within a larger constellation of literacies / Deanna McGaughey-Summers and Russell Summers
- Relationship gaming and identity : Stephanie and Josh / JoAnn Griffin
- Dungeons, dragons, and discretion : a gateway to gaming, technology, and literacy / Stephanie Owen Fleischer, Susan A. Wright, and Matthew L. Barnes
- Interchapter II: What some 20-something players say about gaming
- part III: Gaming and difference. "A real effect on the gameplay" : computer gaming, sexuality, and literacy / Jonathan Alexander with Mack McCoy and Carlos Velez
- Taking flight : learning differences meet gaming literacies / Matthew Bunce, Marjorie Hebert, and J. Christopher Collins
- Racing toward representation : an understanding of racial representation in video games / Samantha Blackmon with Daniel J. Terrell
- Portrait of a gray gamer : a maco-self reading the big picture / John E. Branscum with Frank Quickert
- Gender matters : literacy, learning, and gaming in one American family / Pamela Takayoshi
- Interchapter III: What early gamers say about gaming
- Afterword : the return of the player / Dmitri Williams.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361266
- 9781281361264
- 1281361267
- 9780230601765
- 0230601766
- OCLC:
- 648167119
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