The ecology of games : connecting youth, games, and learning

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The work The ecology of games : connecting youth, games, and learning represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The ecology of games : connecting youth, games, and learning

Title remainder

connecting youth, games, and learning

Statement of responsibility

edited by Katie Salen

Contributor

• Tekinbaş, Katie Salen

Subject

• Computerspellen
• Jongeren
• Leren
• Video games -- Social aspects
• Video games -- Social aspects
• Videojuegos -- Aspectos sociales

Language

eng

Summary

"The Ecology of Games aims to expand upon and add nuance to the debate over the value of games - which so far has been vociferous but overly polemical and surprisingly shallow. Game play is credited with fostering new forms of social organization and new ways of thinking and interacting; the contributors work to situate this within a dynamic media ecology that has the participatory nature of gaming at its core. They look at the ways in which youth are empowered through their participation in the creation, uptake, and revision of games; emergent gaming literacies, including modding, world-building, and learning how to navigate a complex system; and how games act as points of departure for other forms of knowledge, literacy, and social organization."--Jacket

Member of

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

794.8

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GV1469.3

LC item number

.E325 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

• The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
• The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning