Gaming Lives in the Twenty-first Century

CYNTHIA L. SELFE is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the English Department at The Ohio State University, USA. GAIL E. HAWISHER is University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar and Founding Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

PART I:GAMING AND LITERACY - Computer Gaming as Literacy - Gaming as Literacy: Grow as You Go - Gaming, Class, Culture, and Literacy Learning - Found in Translation: Cultural Literacy, Language Acquisition, and Narrative Comprehension in the Advanced Gamer - PART II: GAMING AND DIFFERENCE - Racing Toward Representation: An Understanding of Racial Representation in Video Games - Taking Flight: Learning Difference Meets Gaming Literacies - Queer Role Playing: Gaming and Sexual Literacy - The Social Dimensions of Gaming - Gaming and Narrative - Gaming, Agency, and Imagination: Locating Gaming within a Larger Constellation of Literacies - Aimed at Rewriting the World - Reading Popular Culture through Video Games: One Gamer's View of His Learning and Literacy with Video Games - Gaming, Literacy, and Family - PART III: GAMING AND GENDER - Gaming, Gender, and Literate Practices - Game Playing Girls - Relationship Gaming and Identity: Stephanie and Josh - Text-Based Gaming - PART IV: GAMING ACCROSS TIME - Caucus Race: Three Generations Think About Books, Games, and Lewis Carroll - Dungeons, Dragons, and Discretion: A Gateway to Gaming, Technology, and Literacy - Gaming and Spirituality