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Author:   Nate Garrelts
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780786479740

ISBN 10:   0786479744
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   09 October 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction: Why Minecraft Matters (Nate Garrelts) The Videogame Commons Remakes the Transnational Studio (Dennis Redmond) Players, Modders and Hackers (Peter Christiansen) Teaching Tools: Progressive Pedagogy and the History of Construction Play (Colin Fanning and Rebecca Mir) Mining Constructivism in the University: The Case of Creative Mode (Jeffrey E. Brand, Penny de Byl, Scott J. Knight and James Hooper) The Craft of Data Mining: Minecraft and the Constraints of Play (Alexandra Jean Tremblay, Jeremy Colangelo and Joseph Alexander Brown) Just Steve: Conventions of Gender on the Virtual Frontier (Iris Rochelle Bull) (Queer) Algorithmic Ecology: The Great Opening Up of Nature to All Mobs (Amanda Phillips) Look What Just Happened: Communicating Play in Online Communities (Michael Thomét) A Craft to Call Mine: Creative Appropriation of Minecraft in YouTube Animations (Jandy Gu) “Someone off the YouTubez”: The Yogscast as Fan Producers (Esther ­MacCallum-Stewart) Videogames in the White Cube (Michael St. Clair) Fine Arts, Culture and Creativity in Minecraft (James Morgan and R. Yagiz Mungan) Building a Case for the Authenticity vs. Validity Model of Videogame Design (Adam L. Brackin) Where Game, Play and Art Collide (Rémi Cayatte) About the Contributors Index

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an engrossing and thorough read for gamers...exhaustively researched and thoroughly cited...the reading is lively and active with an approachable tone and style --<i>Library Journal</i>.

an engrossing and thorough read for gamers...exhaustively researched and thoroughly cited...the reading is lively and active with an approachable tone and style --Library Journal.

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Nate Garrelts is a professor of English at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.

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