Researching kids and computer games : games, game play and literacy in the twenty first century Apperley, Thomas, Beavis, Catherine, Bradford, Clare, O'Mara, Joanne and Walsh, Chris 2008, Researching kids and computer games : games, game play and literacy in the twenty first century, in Presentation to The [Player] Conference 2008, [The Conference], Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 4-27. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Researching kids and computer games : games, game play and literacy in the twenty first century Author(s) Apperley, Thomas Beavis, Catherine orcid.org/0000-0002-8835-0309 Bradford, Clare orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-540X O'Mara, Joanne orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-1125 Walsh, Chris Conference name [Player]. Conference (2008 : Copenhagen, Denmark) Conference location Copenhagen, Denmark Conference dates 26 -29 Aug. 2008 Title of proceedings Presentation to The [Player] Conference 2008 Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2008 Conference series The [Player] Conference Start page 4 End page 27 Publisher [The Conference] Place of publication Copenhagen, Denmark Summary Videogames, and young people's engagement with them, are of growing interest to education. This paper reports on initial find ings from the study: Literacy in the Digital World of the Twenty First Century: Leaming from computer games, focussing on the opportunities offered by studying young people's immersion in game play for understanding more about contemporary forms of  engagement and textuality, new forms of literacy,community and identity multimodality, and the implications of such forms and changes for contemporary literacy and English education. Taking videogames as examples of global, ICT-based popular culture, where meaning is built from muhimodal elements, and where young players have to he actively teaming and involved in order to play, the project asks how English and literacy education might benefit from examining videogames, as rich exemplars of contemporary digital culture, and the ways in which young people make use of them, to improve the teaching of print and multi modal forms of literacy. Language eng Field of Research 130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl LOTE, ESL and TESOL) Socio Economic Objective 930201 Pedagogy HERDC Research category E2 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed HERDC collection year 2008 Copyright notice ©2008, The Authors Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30043946 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 02 Apr 2012, 12:19:51 EST Mon, 02 Apr 2012, 12:20:59 EST Tue, 03 Apr 2012, 16:24:47 EST Tue, 03 Apr 2012, 16:25:54 EST Tue, 03 Apr 2012, 16:32:21 EST Tue, 24 Apr 2012, 14:08:50 EST Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 08:32:03 EST Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 15:06:07 EST Tue, 28 Jan 2014, 13:28:48 EST Fri, 01 Aug 2014, 14:25:55 EST Fri, 01 Aug 2014, 14:58:14 EST Wed, 17 Sep 2014, 20:09:25 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 432 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 02 Apr 2012, 12:19:38 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas