Tracing insider knowledge across time and spaces: A connective ethnography in a teen online game world

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL

Volumn 8, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 196-205

  Fields, Deborah A ^a   Kafai, Yasmin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; LEARNING ACTIVITY; MULTIPLE SOURCE; OFFLINE; ON-LINE GAMES; ON-LINE TRACKING; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL EVENTS;

MAMMALS; VIDEO RECORDING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949442638     PISSN: 15734552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (26)

1. Anderson, R. C., Nguyen-Jahiel, K., McNurlen, B., Archodidou, A., Kim, S.-Y., Reznitskaya, A., et al. (2001). The snowball phenomenon: Spread of ways of talking and ways of thinking across groups of children. Cognition and Instruction, 19(1), 1-46.
2. Beavis, C., Nixon, H., & Atkinson, S. (2005). LAN cafes: Cafes, places of gathering, or sites if informal teaching and learning? Education, Communication, Information, 5(1), 41-60.
3. Bruckman, A. (2000). Situated support for learning: Storm's weekend with Rachael. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 9(3), 329-372.
4. Castronova, E. (2005). Synthetic worlds: The business and pleasure of gaming. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
5. Ching, C. C., & Kafai, Y. B. (in press). Peer pedagogy: Student collaboration and reflection in a learning through design project. Teachers College Press.
6. Consalvo, M. (in press). Cheating: Gaining advantage in video games. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
7. Fields, D. A. (April, 2007). Learning by cheating? Investigating the science in cheat sites for informal educational multi-user virtual environments. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
8. Gee, J. P. (2003). What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
9. Gee, J. P. (2004). Situated language and learning: A critique of traditional schooling. New York, NY: Routledge.
10. Glazer, S. (2006). Video Games: Do they have educational value? Congressional Quarterly Researcher, 16 (40), 937-960.
11. Hine, C. (2000). Virtual Ethnography. London: Sage Publications.
12. Jansz, J., & Martens, L. (2005). Gaming at a LAN event: The social context of playing video games. New Media & Society, 7(3), 333-355.
13. Jenkins, H. (1998). Complete freedom of movement: Videogames as gendered playspaces. In J. Cassell & H. Jenkins (Eds.), From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Perspectives on gender and computer games (pp. 323-356). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
14. Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York and London: New York University Press.
15. Kafai, Y. B. (in press). Synthetic play. In Y. B. Kafai, C. Heeter, J. Denner & J. Sun (Eds.), Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat. Cambridge: MIT Press.
16. Kafai, Y. B., & Giang, M. (in press). Virtual playgrounds. In T. Willoughby & E. Wood (Eds.), Children's Learning in a Digital World. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
17. Lægran, A. S., & Stewart, J. (2003). Nerdy, trendy or healthy? Configuring the internet café. New Media & Society, 5(3), 357-377.
18. Leander, K. M., & McKim, K. K. (2003). Tracing the everyday 'sitings' of adolescents on the internet: A strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces. Education, Communication, Information, 3(2), 211-240.
19. Lin, H. (in press). A cultural geography of gaming experiences in homes, cybercafés and dormitories. In Y. B. Kafai, C. Heeter, J. Denner & J. Sun (Eds.), Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat. Cambridge: MIT Press.
20. Roth, W.-M. (1996). Knowledge diffusion in a grade 4-5 classroom during a unit on civil engineering: An analysis of a classroom community in terms of its changing resources and practices. Cognition and Instruction, 4(2), 179-220.
21. Steinkuehler, C. A. (2004). Learning in massively multiplayer online games. In Y. B. Kafai, W. A. Sandoval, N. Enyedy, A. S. Nixon & F. Herrera (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 521-528). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
22. Steinkuehler, C. A. (2006). Massively multiplayer online video gaming as participation in a discourse. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 13(1), 38-52.
23. Swalwell, M. (2003). Multi-player computer gaming: 'Better than playing (PC Games).
24. Taylor, T. L. (2006). Play between worlds. Cambridge: MIT Press.
25. Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.
26. Yee, N. (in press). Maps of digital desires: Exploring the topography of gender and play in online games. In Y. B. Kafai, C. Heeter, J. Denner & J. Sun (Eds.), Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat. Cambridge: MIT Press.