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The Work of Play: Meaning-Making in Videogames

By (author) Aaron Chia Yuan Hung

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Some educational researchers claim that videogames can energize learning in both traditional and non-traditional contexts; cultivate skills more useful to a changing economy; and present information in ways more appealing to students. The notion of «serious games» dates back as early as the 1950s, but so far has failed to make a significant lasting impact on what goes on in education. The Work of Play is an attempt to describe such learning on the micro-level, capturing the moment-by-moment interactions between players and showing how meanings are shaped over time. It builds on anthropological methods, including ethnography and conversation analysis, to re-construct how situated learning occurs and how players’ perception of the game evolves as their experiences with the game change. This is a valuable book for researchers and for classroom use at the upper-division undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Publisher | Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published date | 23 Jun 2011
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 222
Dimensions | 230 x 160 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 450g
ISBN | 978-1-4331-0906-5
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BISAC | education / teaching methods & materials / general

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