Cynthia L. SELFE et Gail E. HAWISHER, Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century. Literate Connections, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 288 p.
ISBN 1-4039-7220-6
SUMMARY
Gaming Lives explores the complexly rendered relationship between computer gaming environments and literacy development by focusing on in-depth case studies of computer gamers in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This volume examines the claim that computer games can provide better literacy and learning environments than U.S. schools. Using the words and observations of individual gamers, this book offers historical and cultural analyses of their literacy development, practices, and values.
CONTENTS
Part I: Gaming and Literacy
Computer Gaming as Literacy
Gaming as Literacy: Grow as You Go
Gaming, Class, Culture, and Literacy Learning
Found in Translation: Cultural Literacy, Language Acquisition, and Narrative Comprehension in the Advanced Gamer
Part II: Gaming and Difference
Racing Toward Representation: An Understanding of Racial Representation in Video Games
Taking Flight: Learning Difference Meets Gaming Literacies
Queer Role Playing: Gaming and Sexual LiteracyThe Social Dimensions of Gaming
Gaming and Narrative
Gaming, Agency, and Imagination: Locating Gaming within a Larger Constellation of Literacies Aimed at Rewriting the World
Reading Popular Culture through Video Games: One Gamer’s View of His Learning and Literacy with Video Games
Gaming, Literacy, and Family
Part III: Gaming and Gender
Gaming, Gender, and Literate Practices
Game Playing Girls
Relationship Gaming and Identity: Stephanie and Josh
Text-Based Gaming
Part IV: Gaming Across Time
Caucus Race: Three Generations Think About Books, Games, and Lewis Carroll
Dungeons, Dragons, and Discretion: A Gateway to Gaming, Technology, and Literacy
Gaming and Spirituality
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Cynthia L. Selfe is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the English Department at The Ohio State University.
Gail E. Hawisher is University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar and Founding Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.