Gaming lives in the twenty-first century [[electronic resource] ] : literate connections / / edited by Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher ; foreword by James P. Gee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784155303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-36126-7; 9786611361266; 0-230-60176-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 273 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SelfeCynthia L. <1951->; HawisherGail E
• Disciplina: 794.8
• Soggetti: Video games - Psychological aspects; Video games - Social aspects; Learning, Psychology of; Visual literacy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.