'Writing' computer games: Game literacy and new-old narratives

L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 45-67

  Burn, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer games; Digital authoring; Literacy; Media; Multimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250805906     PISSN: 15676617     EISSN: 15731731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17239/l1esll-2007.07.04.04     Document Type: Article

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