Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century

   1. Introduction: Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century

      • Gail E. Hawisher, Cynthia L. Selfe

      Pages 1-17

3. Gaming and Literacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Computer Gaming as Literacy

      • Cynthia L. Selfe, Anne F. Mareck, Josh Gardiner

      Pages 21-35

   3. Transcultural Literacies of Gaming

      • Iswari P. Pandey, Laxman Pandey, Angish Shreshtha

      Pages 37-51

   4. Lost (and Found) in Translation: Game Localization, Cultural Models, and Critical Literacy

      • Erin Smith, Eve Deitsch

      Pages 53-70

   5. Gaming, Identity, and Literacy

      • Daniel Keller, Paul Ardis, Vivienne Dunstan, Adam Thornton, Rachel Henry, Brett Witty

      Pages 71-87

4. Back Matter

   Pages 88-89

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5. The Social Dimensions of Gaming

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Narrative, Action, and Learning: The Stories of Myst

      • Debra Journet

      Pages 93-120

   3. Gaming, Agency, and Imagination: Locating Gaming within a Larger Constellation of Literacies

      • Deanna McGaughey-Summers, Russell Summers

      Pages 121-132

   4. Relationship Gaming and Identity: Stephanie and Josh

      • JoAnn Griffin

      Pages 133-142

   5. Dungeons, Dragons, and Discretion: A Gateway to Gaming, Technology, and Literacy

      • Stephanie Owen Fleischer, Susan A. Wright, Matthew L. Barnes

      Pages 143-160

6. Back Matter

   Pages 161-163

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7. Gaming and Difference

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. “A Real Effect on the Gameplay”: Computer Gaming, Sexuality, and Literacy

      • Jonathan Alexander, Mack Mccoy, Carlos Velez

      Pages 167-189

   3. Taking Flight: Learning Differences Meet Gaming Literacies

      • Matthew Bunce, Marjorie Hebert, J. Christopher Collins

      Pages 191-202

   4. Racing toward Representation: An Understanding of Racial Representation in Video Games

      • Samantha Blackmon, Daniel J. Terrell

      Pages 203-215

   5. Portrait of a Gray Gamer: A Macro-Self Reading the Big Picture

      • John E. Branscum, Frank Quickert

      Pages 217-228

   6. Gender Matters: Literacy, Learning, and Gaming in One American Family

      • Pamela Takayoshi

      Pages 229-249

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.

• Computer
• environment
• Gaming
• gender
• Generation
• identity
• learning
• Nation
• technology
• time
• video

• Department of English, The Ohio State University, USA

  Cynthia L. Selfe

• Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

  Gail E. Hawisher

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

  Derek Ittersum

CYNTHIA L. SELFE is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the English Department at The Ohio State University, USA.

GAIL E. HAWISHER is University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar and Founding Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

JAMES PAUL GEE has written the Foreword to this book. He is one of the most well-known professors of education in the United States. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is the author of several books, including What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

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