Learning from Computer Games: Literacy Learning in a Virtual World

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Author(s): Robyn Henderson (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 50
Source title: Technoliteracy, Discourse, and Social Practice: Frameworks and Applications in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Darren Lee Pullen (University of Tasmania, Australia), Christina Gitsaki (University of Queensland, Australia)and Margaret Baguley (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-842-0.ch014

Keywords: Digital Literacy / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science

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This chapter builds on James Gee’s (2003) description of the playing of computer games as the learning of a new literacy. To investigate this form of literacy learning from a player’s perspective, the author created an avatar and joined the online community of the Massively Multiplayer Online Game, the World of WarcraftTM produced by Blizzard Entertainment®. This autoethnographic approach to exploring the game’s linguistic, visual, audio, spatial and gestural elements of design provide an insider’s perspective of the meaning-making resources that were on offer. The chapter concludes with a tentative consideration of how understandings about the literacies used within a virtual world might inform the learning of literacies in schools and other educational institutions.

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