Gaming lives in the twenty-first century: literate connections

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 pr...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Palgrave 2007
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 273 S.
ISBN:9781403972194
9781403972200