Emergent Gaming

Gaming

(World of Warcraft)

Why pay attention to this stuff?

• Cultural presence (crossing gender and age, ESA study)
• 3d demand and tools
• Interface driver (watch NASA)
• Content creation (example: "The French Democracy" (2005))
• Changes in information ecology
• Object of study
• Pedagogical implications (James Paul Gee, Mark Prensky)

Larger issues

• Platform diversity
• Content diversity
• Size and depth of audience

• Violence
• Transmedia storytelling (Henry Jenkins, MIT)
• Academic study line (IGDA)
• Current events (Kumawar)
• Political argument (September 12th, FoodForce, Darfur is Dying)
• Religious gaming ((Left Behind: Eternal Forces, 2006))
• Literary gaming (Kafkamesto, 2006)
• A new collaborative space Metaverse roadmap

Exempla: http://apps.nitle.org/wikifarm/research/index.php/Main/CasualGames, a new take on interactive fiction, Rise of Nations, Second Life

Serious games

• Peacemaker
• Revolution (mod, MIT)
• September 12th, Madrid

Machinima

• Wikipedia page
• Examples: Red vs Blue (ongoing), The French Democracy (2005) , The Dred Scott case (2007)

Alternate reality games (ARG)

• I Love Bees
• Bad Wolf disclaimer

Bryan's ELI workshop materials

Virtual worlds

• Metaverse idea Metaverse Roadmap
  Second Life
  Sony Home
  Croquet
• 2d/3d worlds
  Club Penguin, Habbo Hotel
• Social software integration
  CyWorld
• Mirror worlds
  Google Earth, WorldWind

New forms emerging

• Passively Multiplayer Online Game
• Human computing (example: Google Image Labeler

Readings

James Paul Gee, "The Classroom of Popular Culture". Harvard Education Letter, November/December 2005.
____. "Learning About Learning from a Video Game" (2003).
____. What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy (2003) .
Oblinger, D. The Next Generation of Educational Engagement (2004). Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2004 (8). Special Issue on the Educational Semantic Web.

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