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| Autor/in | Toscano, Aaron Antonio |
|---|---|
| Titel | Enacting Culture in Gaming: A Video Gamer's Literacy Experiences and Practices |
| Quelle | In: Current Issues in Education, 14 (2011) 1, (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1099-839X |
| Schlagwörter | Video Games; Young Adults; Case Studies; Computer Literacy; Student Subcultures; Cultural Influences; Role; Individualism; Information Technology; Socialization; Fantasy; Barriers; Problem Solving; Semiotics; Writing (Composition); Comparative Analysis; Identification (Psychology) |
| Abstract | Video games are growing as a subject for scholarly analysis (Gee, 2003; Selfe & Hawisher 2004; Selfe & Hawisher 2004, 2007): This discussion argues that video games are another simulacra for postmodern cultural critique. Video games do cultural work by allowing gamers to play out socially constructed hopes and fears. As cultural products mediated by overarching values, video games enact the culture from which they come and to which they are marketed, including features of individualism, militarization, and perseverance. Following Brian Street's (2003) ideological model of literacy, this analysis of a particular gamer's literacy practices found them heavily influenced by contemporary culture: Video game environments require gamers to read dynamic semiotic systems (Gee, 2003) that position them to be cultural critics on the one hand and learners acquiring new literacy practices on the other. "Brent," a creative writer, creates fictional worlds in his writing that reinscribe common video game narratives, an intertextuality reinforcing how literacy is never learned in a vacuum outside of cultural influences. Acquiring literacy skills via gaming involves socio-political immersion in and interaction with media reflecting the surrounding dominant cultural ideology. (Contains 3 endnotes.) (As Provided). |
| Anmerkungen | Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education. Deans Office, P.O. Box 870211 Payne 108, Tempe, AZ 85287. Tel: 480-965-3306; Fax: 480-965-6231; e-mail: cie@asu.edu; Web site: http://cie.asu.edu |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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