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Cover image for book Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century

Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century

Literate Connections
By:G. Hawisher
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403972194
eText ISBN:9780230601765
Edition:0
Copyright:2007
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.