Learning in Video Game Affinity Spaces (Paperback, New edition)

As video games have become an important economic and cultural force, scholars are increasingly trying to better understand the ways that engagement with games may drive learning, literacy, and social participation in the twenty-first century. In this book, the authors consider games and just as importantly, the social interactions around games, not in terms of how they should be managed or incorporated into existing educational structures, but for what they tell us about the forms of learning and literacy that are already instantiated within the use of these media. To this end, this book delves deeply into James Paul Gee's (2004) productive and influential concept of the affinity space - the physical or virtual locations (or some combination of the two) where people come together around a shared interest or "affinity." By explicating how and why engaged fans of digital media do what they do in online spaces, the authors cast a light, as Gee did, on the promise of these media and the problems facing current educational systems.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, 51
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Elisabeth R. Hayes • Sean C Duncan
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	254
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-0983-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > Public speaking / elocution Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-0983-2
Barcode:	9781433109836

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