| | | Mediated discourse analysis: Tracking discourse in action [Analysis of viral video "A Baby Thinks a Magazine is an iPad that does not Work"] In this chapter, I demonstrate methods of mediated discourse analysis as a way of unpacking and tracking how the smallest actions, like a baby's wordless swipes and taps on a tablet, constitute key meaning-making practices (e.g., talking, reading, writing, playing, viewing, designing, filming, computing, etc.) that signal literate abilities and identities. This action orientation distinguishes mediated discourse analysis from other types of critical discourse analysis through a recognition that • Activity is often neither narrated nor accompanied by text or talk; however, such activity... | | Building Fantasy Worlds Together with Collaborative Writing: Creative, Social, and Pedagogic Challenges Josh and I wrote about forms of collaboration his students described when working on the Building Worlds project in his fantasy and science fiction elective English course. After we discuss each form of collaboration, Josh describes his instructional response to the students and the project. We end the article with a series of questions for all of us to consider in regard to collaborative writing with technology. | | The biopolitics of gaming: Avatar-player self-reflexivity in Assassin's Creed II In this chapter we discuss key gameplay elements of one of the most important and influential videogame series of recent years, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series. We propose that an essential part of the success of this game is due to its making a significant and innovative intervention in the meta-reflexive thematization of the avatar-form: the imaginative staging of the experience of the user and consequently the user's necessary relationship to the game software and hardware is the underlying theme of the narrative itself. Within this staging, the concerns of narrative and the ludic... | | | Academia, 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA, 94108 Unsubscribe Privacy Policy Terms of Service © 2015 Academia | |
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