Panel proposal: Gamer communities, design, and learning

Proceedings of Sandbox 2008: An ACM SIGGRAPH Videogame Symposium, Sandbox'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-34

  Squire, Kurt ^a   Duncan, Sean ^a   DeVane, Ben ^a   Wolfenstein, Moses ^a   Hunter, Rik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 70249102436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1401843.1401848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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15. WRIGHT, T., BRIEDERBACH, P. and BORIA, E. Creative Player Actions in FPS On-Line Video Games: Playing Counter-Strike. Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research. V. 2, #2, 2002. Kurt Squire is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Educational Communications and Technology division of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Squire is the director of the Games+Learning+Society Initiative and his current research interests center on the impact of contemporary gaming practices on learning, schooling and society. Sean Duncan is a doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and member of the Games+Learning+Society Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research deals with digital media literacy and learning, focusing on the evolution of design practices in online gaming communities. Ben DeVane is a doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and member of the Games+Learning+Society Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research investigates the use of youth culture and popular media in games for learning. Moses Wolfenstein is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and member of the Games+Learning+Society Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His doctoral research deals with leadership in online games, as well as game based learning tools for school leaders, virtual schools and the potential they hold for housing next level interactive platforms for teaching and learning. Rik Hunter is a PhD candidate in the University of Wisconsin's Composition and Rhetoric program. His research interests include new media, fan production, collective intelligence, and collaborative writing and learning. Rik's dissertation, titled "Writing WoWWiki: Wiki-Mediated Collaborative Composition & Social Interaction," develops an understanding of how the wiki and goals of a fan community shape collaborative composition in an online environment (i.e., the ways in which technologies shape and are shaped by discourse communities).