Expansive Genres of Play: Getting Serious About Game Genres for the Design of Future Learning Environments

Mehlenbacher, Brad; Kampe, Christopher

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40295-6_6

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“…Технологические изменения последних лет (в том числе появление новых медиа) сместили фокус внимания исследователей в сторону следующих вопросов. Во-первых, появление большого количества новых жанров (например, блог [45], видеоигры [42]) в последние несколько десятилетий актуализировало вопрос о механизме образования жанров. Во-вторых, появление новых медиа и признание жанра мультиинструментальным явлением (в английском языке используется понятие "multimodality", которое не совпадает со значением русского термина «мультимодальность»; под мультиинструментальностью понимается способность жанра реализовываться через различные информационные каналы, так, одна и та же повесть может быть книгой, видеоигрой и выставкой) наглядно показали, что жанры подвержены существенным трансформациям, а жанровая система является подвижной и динамично развивающейся.…”

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Defining the “Genre” Notion (Main Approaches, Issues and Prospects): Systematic Review

Nikonova¹

2020

Philology. Theory & Practice

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The systematic review aims to demonstrate to the reader that the existing viewpoints on the “genre” notion cannot be considered universal and make recommendations on further conduction of research taking into account modern tendencies in the field of genre studies. The work details various developmental paths of the Russian and foreign genre studies. The present lack of a universal nomenclature system in this branch of linguistics, complicated by divergence between the Russian and foreign theories of speech genres, as well as a great number of “unresolved” issues make the topic relevant. Scientific novelty of the research lies in identifying shortcomings of approaches to considering the “genre” notion and in detecting the emerging trends in this field. The attained results have proved that it is essential to see the genre as a multifaceted category and make an attempt to combine the existing approaches in order to resolve fundamental issues of genre studies.

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Defining the “Genre” Notion (Main Approaches, Issues and Prospects): Systematic Review

Nikonova¹

2020

Philology. Theory & Practice

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“…Increasingly, (rhetorical) 1 genre researchers have been attending to the complex new media environments, including the traditional purview in professional and scientific communication, although also exploring new modalities (Casper, 2016; Gonzalez-Pueyo & Redrado, 2003; Gross & Harmon, 2016; Mehlenbacher, 2017; Wickman, 2016). But genre researchers are also investing many other contexts and modalities, including online video genres (including health, e.g., Arduser, 2017 and Ding, 2017; and immigration, Hartelius, 2017), popular technical descriptions (e.g., Pflugfelder, 2017, on Reddit’s “Explain to Me Like I’m Five”), video games (e.g., Mehlenbacher & Kampe, 2017; Randall, 2017; Sherlock, 2009), and other popular genres (e.g., Reiff & Bawarshi, 2016).…”

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Rhetorical Genres in Code

Brock

Mehlenbacher

2017

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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We examine the rhetorical activity employed within software development communities in code texts. For technical communicators, the rhetoricity of code is crucial for the development of more effective code and documentation. When we understand that code is a collection of rhetorical decisions about how to engage those machinic processes, we can better attend to the significance and nuance of those decisions and their impact on potential user activities.

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Outstanding Videogames on Water: A Quality Assessment Review Based on Evidence of Narrative, Gameplay and Educational Criteria

Ouariachi

Pérez

Olvera‐Lobo

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Water

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Videogames have become educational, communicative and social tools among the young, favouring the acquisition of skills, abilities and values, encompassing an endless number of themes, and helping them to experience and to face, in the first person, a great diversity of environmental situations and ecology problems. Thus, the present article aims: (a) to evaluate a sample of 20 educational videogames about water, making use of some empirical criteria of quality; and (b) to design, validate and apply an integrated quality indicator of educational videogames on water, based on the aspects of narrative, gameplay and education, which allows us to obtain a ranking. The findings reflect a ranking of games allowing us to suggest that the nature of the game (simulation, adventures, platforms or questions) does not determine the quality of the game, although generally simulations and adventure games are placed in a range of medium- or high-quality, as well as those games that pursue objectives related to the design and management of a territory in a sustainable way. The paper provides teachers with quality criteria based on narrative and gameplay that complement and enrich the pedagogical dimension.

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Expansive Genres of Play: Getting Serious About Game Genres for the Design of Future Learning Environments

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Defining the “Genre” Notion (Main Approaches, Issues and Prospects): Systematic Review

Defining the “Genre” Notion (Main Approaches, Issues and Prospects): Systematic Review

Rhetorical Genres in Code

Outstanding Videogames on Water: A Quality Assessment Review Based on Evidence of Narrative, Gameplay and Educational Criteria

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