Playing as a mutant in a virtual world: understanding overlapping story worlds in popular culture video games

Rowsell, Jennifer; Pedersen, Isabel; Trueman, Douglas

doi:10.1111/lit.12022

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“…Gee () delineated multiple ways in which people use digital tools and platforms to project their values, desires, and fantasies onto a character. For example, video games offer storyworlds in which players participate through their imagined identities (Rowsell, Pederson, & Trueman, ). Constructing an online identity engages multimodal literacy practices that involve complex reflection and composition.…”

Section: Multimodal Literacies and Imagined Identitiesmentioning

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Multimodal Literacies: Imagining Lives Through Korean Dramas

Kim¹,

Omerbašić²

2016

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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Global networks of information and interactions have created new conditions for access to myriad literacies, languages, and communities. Engagements with transnational texts and communities can support the imagination of lives different from one's local context. This article presents data from two qualitative studies of adolescent literacy practices about popular‐culture texts produced in Korea. Although these adolescents did not reside in Korea, the authors found that they constructed transnational spaces through these multimodal literacy practices: imagining different lives and engaging in multilingual mediascapes. Adolescents in both studies expressed a sense of belonging not exclusive to their places of residence. The findings support the argument that multimodal literacy practices developed through engagement with another country's popular‐culture texts support imaginative identity construction. These findings have implications for researchers and educators interested in multimodal literacies, digitally mediated learning, multilingualism, and transnational studies.

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Section: Multimodal Literacies and Imagined Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimodal Literacies: Imagining Lives Through Korean Dramas

Kim¹,

Omerbašić²

2016

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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“…These celebrities also appear in TV programs, amusement parks, or merchandising products [42]. An example is the game Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, where some famous faces appear, among them Kit Harington, Brian Bloom, and David Hasselhoff [55]. It is an increasingly implanted practice that is not exempt from legal conflicts between the right to advertise and the personality rights of these famous people [47].…”

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Evaluation Expediency of Eco-Friendly Advertising Formats for Different Generation Based on Spanish Advertising Experts

Palomo-Domínguez

Zemlickienė

2022

Sustainability

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The advertising industry is also responsible for promoting a sustainable future for our planet. Besides launching messages of environmental respect, it is essential to choose and use advertising tools that will leave the lightest footprint in the environment. While environmental issues are indeed relevant, in any way, the need remains to spread the word about the products/services and make rational decisions that will maximize the reach of potential consumers. In other words, support measures are needed to reach the target market more effectively. Based on the above considerations, the article presents the research results of evaluating the expediency of eco-friendly advertising formats to different generational cohorts in the Spanish media scene. The MCDM method defined the structure of the research and was used to summarize the results of the expert study. This method’s choice is based on motive related to the purpose of the evaluation and the applicability of the research results in practice. Research results are helpful guidelines for decision-makers of advertising agencies or their clients in the campaign planning process. They show that generational differences are a determining factor for reaching the target market.

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“…Some researchers suggest that digital technology is actually changing the nature of writing (Merchant, ; Hicks, ), and that ‘additional’ principles of digital writing need to be recognised beyond those of traditional transcription (Clay, ). Others (Berger and McDougall, ; Rowsell et al, ; Burn, ) see a connection between traditional storytelling and popular narrative media, especially video games. Such connections are evident in the findings of the Story Engine project, where the influence of video games was very prevalent in the writing of some participants.…”

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The Story Engine: offering an online platform for making ‘unofficial’ creative writing work

Connolly

Burn

2017

Literacy

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This article describes the outcomes of a research project conducted at the Ministry of Stories (a London‐based writing centre) which sought to develop an online, mentor‐assisted, writing platform. Across a 3‐month period, at four different sites across the UK, more than a hundred Year 7 pupils took part in the project, using the platform to write stories and get feedback from mentors who came from a variety of backgrounds. For reasons of space, pupil/mentor interactions are not discussed extensively in the article; however, these stories were collected and analysed alongside a range of other survey and interview data to establish how creative writing might be developed through online mentoring, the use of an online interface and the intersection of both these tools. The article seeks to answer some questions raised by the data collected in the project, and in turn, uses both the questions and the data to interrogate some of the discourses which surround the teaching of creative writing both in and outside the classroom, and in particular the tensions that occur between the teaching of writing skills, ‘official versions’ of writing in the classroom and children's use of their own cultural resources in creative writing.

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Playing as a mutant in a virtual world: understanding overlapping story worlds in popular culture video games

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Multimodal Literacies: Imagining Lives Through Korean Dramas

Multimodal Literacies: Imagining Lives Through Korean Dramas

Evaluation Expediency of Eco-Friendly Advertising Formats for Different Generation Based on Spanish Advertising Experts

The Story Engine: offering an online platform for making ‘unofficial’ creative writing work

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