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Title: Worlds in Play

Worlds in Play

International Perspectives on Digital Games Research

by Suzanne de Castell (Volume editor) Jennifer Jenson (Volume editor)
©2007 Textbook X, 352 Pages
Education
Series: New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, Volume 21

Summary

Worlds in Play, a map of the «state of play» in digital games research today, illustrates the great variety and extreme contrasts in the landscape cleft by contemporary digital games research. The chapters in this volume are the work of an international review board of seventy game-study specialists from fields spanning social sciences, arts, and humanities to the physical and applied sciences and technologies. A wellspring of inspiring concepts, models, protocols, data, methods, tools, critical perspectives, and directions for future work, Worlds in Play will support and assist in reading not only within, but across fields of play – disciplinary, temporal, and geographical – and encourage all of us to widen our focus to encompass the omni-dimensional phenomenon of «worlds in play.»

Details

Pages
X, 352
Publication Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820486437
Language
English
Keywords
Aufsatzsammlung Computerspiel Forschung Digital game Digital game research Video game Play
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2007. X, 352 pp., num. fig.
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Biographical notes

Suzanne de Castell (Volume editor) Jennifer Jenson (Volume editor)

The Editors: Suzanne de Castell is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, where she researches literacies, media studies, and game-based educational technologies. She is completing a three-year study of new attentional economies for learning, and chaired the DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) 2005 International Conference, from which this collection of papers was drawn. Jennifer Jenson is Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Technology in the Faculty of Education at York University. Working with Suzanne de Castell and a team of students, she is co-designing an educational game, Contagion, and she is completing a three-year study of gender and digital gameplay.

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