In my research, I attempt to uncover the productive activities that occur around videogames, casting “gamers as designers” (looking chiefly at The Legend of Zelda, World of Warcraft, and game design in Adobe Flash). In particular, I’m interested in the ways passionate fans of games construct new stories, gameplay strategies, mods, scenarios, and even new games — plus, trying to figure out what this tells us about learning in online communities, and how these practices might help learners (young and old) develop so-called “21st century skills.”
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