Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century: Literate Connections

by Cynthia L. Selfe

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403972206
• ISBN13: 9781403972200
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"