TY - GEN
T1 - Inter- and intra-textuality in massively multiplayer online games
AU - Schrader, P. G.
AU - Lawless, Kimberly A.
AU - McCreery, Michael
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - As members of a knowledge society, users must identify, evaluate, and utilize information from a variety of texts, across a sundry of resources. Although these skills are vital for productive citizenship in a post-typographic world, there are few investigations that examine multiple text comprehension in highly complex environments. As a result, this research describes the manner in which gamers engage in multiple text comprehension and intertextual practices within the context of the World of Warcraft. This context is highly complex, rich in information, and supports multiple modes of communication. The literacy skills used by gamers in this environment provide us with a more complete understanding of multiple text comprehension overall and within similar complex environments.
AB - As members of a knowledge society, users must identify, evaluate, and utilize information from a variety of texts, across a sundry of resources. Although these skills are vital for productive citizenship in a post-typographic world, there are few investigations that examine multiple text comprehension in highly complex environments. As a result, this research describes the manner in which gamers engage in multiple text comprehension and intertextual practices within the context of the World of Warcraft. This context is highly complex, rich in information, and supports multiple modes of communication. The literacy skills used by gamers in this environment provide us with a more complete understanding of multiple text comprehension overall and within similar complex environments.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84896621381
SN - 1934272477
SN - 9781934272473
T3 - IMSCI 2008 - 2nd International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings
SP - 67
EP - 72
BT - IMSCI 2008 - 2nd International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings
PB - International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, IIIS
T2 - 2nd International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics, IMSCI 2008
Y2 - 29 June 2008 through 2 July 2008
ER -