Aarseth, E. (2003) ‘Playing Research: Methodological approaches to game analysis’ presented at Spilforskning Conference, August 2003, Spilforskning, Germany

Atkins, B. and Krzywinska, T (2007) Videogame, Player, Text. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Barthes, R. (1974). S/Z (R. Miller, Trans.). Oxford: Blackwell.

Barthes, R (1977 p 127) ‘The Struggle with the Angel; Textual analysis of Genesis 32: 22-32’ in Image Music Text (S. Heath, Trans.). London: Fontana Press PP 125-141

Barthes, R (1977) ‘Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative’ in Image Music Text (S. Heath, Trans.). London: Fontana Press PP 79-124

Barthes, R. (1977). Textual Analysis of a Tale by Edgar Poe. Poe Studies, 10 (1), 1-12 (reprinted by the Poe Society of Baltimore)

Bennett, T. and Woollacott, J. (1987) Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero. New York: Methuen, Inc.

Bierre, K., Chetwynd, J., Ellis, B., Hinn, M., Ludi., S. and T. Westin (2005) ‘Game not over: Accessibility issues in video games’ in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human Computer Interaction July 2005 Las Vegas, USA

Bryce, J., and Rutter, J. (2002)  ‘Killing Like a Girl: Gendered Gaming and Girl Gamers’ Visibility’. Proceedings of Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference, June 2002. Frans Mäyrä (ed) Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2002. PP 243- 255

Carr, D. (2002) ‘Playing with Lara’ ScreenPlay: Cinema/Videogame Interfaces. T. Krzywinska, G. King (eds) London Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press

Carr, D. (2004) ‘Modelled Cities, Model Citizens; from overseer to occupant’ for Sim City: the Virtual City ed. Dr Matteo Bittanti, Milano: Edizioni Unicopli

Carr, D (2005) ‘The Rules of the Game, The Burden of Narrative: Enter the Matrix’, The Matrix Trilogy; Cyberpunk Reloaded, S Gillis (ed) London: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press

Carr, D (2005) ‘Contexts, Gaming Pleasures and Gendered Preferences’, Simulation and Gaming Vol 36 No 4 December 2005

Carr, D. (2006) ‘Games and Narrative’ in Carr, D., Buckingham, D., Burn, A., Schott G. (2006) Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play, Cambridge: Polity Press

Carr, D. (2006) ‘ Play and Pleasure’ in Carr, D., Buckingham, D., Burn, A., Schott G. (2006) Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play, Cambridge: Polity Press

Carr, D., Buckingham, D., Burn, A., Schott G. (2006) Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play, Cambridge: Polity Press

Carr, D (2007) ‘The Trouble with Civilization’ in Videogame/Text/Player/Play, T. Krzywinska and B.Atkins (eds) Manchester: Manchester University Press

Carr, D. (2007/2008) Meaning and the Playable Text. Doctoral Thesis, IOE, University of London. Examined 2007, awarded 2008.

Carr, D (2009) ‘Textual Analysis, Digital Games, Zombies’. Presented at DiGRA International Conference, London, September 2009

Carr, D (2010) ‘Constructing Disability in Online Worlds; Conceptualising Disability in Online Research’. London Review of Education March 2010

Carr, D. (2011 in press) ‘Interpretation, Conflict and Instruction in Online Multiplayer Games: Lessons from Warsong Gulch’ in Computer Games / Players / Game Cultures: A Handbook on the State and Perspectives of Digital Game Studies, J Fromme and A Unger. (eds) Publ: Springer

Corneliussen, H.J., and Rettberg, J.W. (2008) Digital Culture, Play and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press

Davis, L. J. (1995) Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body. London: Verso

Davis, L.J (2006) ‘Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century’, in The Disability Studies Reader. L.J.Davis (ed). New York. Routledge pp 3-16

Darke, P.A. (2008) ‘The changing face of representations of disability in the media’ in Disabling Barriers – Enabling Environments. J Swain, S.French, C.Barnes, C.Thomas (eds). London: Sage pp 100-105

Eriksson and Gardenfors (2004) ‘Computer Games for Children with Visual Impairments’. Proceedings 5th Intl. Conference Disability, Virtual Reality and Assoc. Tech. Oxford, UK. 2004

Goggin, G and Newell, C. (2006) ‘Editorial Comment: Disability, identity and interdependence: ICTs and new social forms’. Information, Communication and Society Vol 9 No 3 June 2006 pp 309-311

Dovey, J. and Kennedy, H.W. (2006) Game Cultures: Computer Games as New Media. Maidenhead: Open University Press

Frasca, G. (2003). ‘Ludologists Love Stories Too: Notes from a debate that never took place’. In M. Copier & J. Raessens (Eds.), Level Up: Digital Games Research Conference (pp. 92-99). Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht

Juul, J. (2001). ‘Games Telling Stories? A brief note on games and narratives’. Game Studies, 1(1).
Kennedy (see Dovey and Kennedy)

King, G., and Krzywinska T. (2002) ScreenPlay: Cinema/Videogame Interfaces. London Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press

King, G and Krzywinska, T (2009) – this should be 2006 – Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders. London: Tauris, 2006.

Krzywinska, T. (2002). ‘Hands-On Horror’. In T. Krzywinska & G. King (Eds.), ScreenPlay: Cinema/Videogame Interfaces. London: Wallflower.

Krzywinska, T. (2008) ‘Zombies in Gamespace: Form, Context, and Meaning in Zombie-Based Video Games’. In Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead. S. McIntosh and M.Leverette (eds.) Plymouth UK. The Scarecrow Press PP 153-168

Linton, S. (1998) Claiming Disability. New York. New York University Press

Lane, H. (2006) Construction of Deafness, in The Disability Studies Reader. L.J.Davis (ed). New York. Routledge pp 79-92

Lauro, S.J and Embry, K. (2008) ‘A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism’. Boundary 2, 35:1 (2008) Spring pp 85-108

Moser, I. (2006) ‘Disability and the Promises of Technology’ Information, Communication and Society Vol 9 No 3 June 2006 pp 373-395

Salen, K., Zimmerman, E. (2004)  Rules of Play. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

Sobchack, V. (2004) Carnal Thoughts. Berkeley: University of California Press

Paffenroth, K. (2006) Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press

Verlager, A.(2006) Decloaking Disability: Images of Disability and Technology in Science Fiction Media. MA Thesis, MIT. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

Williams, L. (1984) ‘Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess’ in Film Theory and Criticism. L Braudy and M. Cohen (eds) Oxford: Oxford University Press pp 701-715

Yuan, B., Folmer, E., and Harris, F.C. (2011) ‘Game Accessibility: a Survey’ Universal Access in the Information Society, Volume 10, Number 1, pages 81-100, March 2011

Zagal, J.P., Mateas, M.,Fernandez-Vara,C., Hochhalter,B., Lichti,N. (2007)‘Towards an Ontological Language for Game Analysis’ in Worlds in Play. S.de Castell and J. Jenson (eds) New York: Peter Lang Press PP 21-36

WEEK 1

Mills, J and Mills, R (2000) Chapter 1: Perspectives on Childhood in Childhood Studies: A Reader in Perspectives on Childhood. New York: Routledge. PP

Frosh, S., Phoenix, A., and Pattman, R. (2003) ‘The Trouble with Boys’ in The Psychologist, Vol 16 no 2 Feb 2003 pages 84-87  

https://portal.ioe.ac.uk/http/www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm/volumeID_16-editionID_91-ArticleID_521-getfile_getPDF/thepsychologist/0203frosh.pdf

Qvortrup, J. (2005) ‘Varieties of Childhood’ in Qvortrup, J. (ed) Studies in Modern Childhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian.

Qvortrup, J., Corsaro, W.A, and Honig, M.S (2009) eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. Basingstoke. Palgrave Macmillan

Kehily, M.J. (ed.) (2004 or 2009) An Introduction to Childhood Studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press. 

WEEK 2

Woodhead, M. (2009) ‘Child Development and the Development of Childhood’ in The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. Qvortrup, J,. Corsaro W.A and Honig, M-S (eds) Basingstoke. Palgrave Macmillan pp 46-61

Reay, D and Wiliam, D. (1999) ‘I’ll be a nothing: Structure, Agency and the Construction of Identity through assessment’ in British Educational Research Journal Vol.25, No. 3

Walkerdine V (1984) ‘Developmental Psychology and the Child Centred Pedagogy: the Insertion of Piaget’s Theory into Primary School Practice in Changing the Subject; Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity Henriques et al (eds) London: Metheun, pp 153-202

WEEK 3

Visit the ‘Representing Childhood’ project website produced by the University of Pittsburgh (2005). http://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/didyouknow.htm

http://www.open2.net/theinventionofchildhood/index.html

Explore the BBC and Open University’s website about ‘The Invention of Childhood’

Frosh, S, Phoenix, A., and Pattman, R. (2002) Young Masculinities, Introduction pp 1 – 21. Palgrave.

Lorber, J. Paradoxes of Gender (Chapter 1) (1994) Yale University Press. Excerpt online at http://www.meac.org/Resources/ed_services/SG_WEB/SeeingGender/PDFs/SocialConstructionOfGender.pd

Burr, V. (1995) Introduction and chapter 1 of An Introduction to Social Constructionism. London: Routledge

Sreenivas, D. (2010) ‘Forging new communities: Gendered childhood through the lens of caste’ in Feminist Theory 2010; vol 11 no 3, pp 267-28 http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/3/267

Stern, S. (2008) “Producing Sites, Exploring Identities: Youth Online Authorship.” Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. D. Buckingham (ed.) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 95–118.

WEEK 4

Hanson, S. (2000). ‘Children in Film’ in Childhood Studies: A Reader, (Eds.) Jean and Richard Mills. London and New York: Routledge, pp145-159

Dyer, R. (1993) ‘Introduction’ in The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation. Chapter 1 pp 1- 5. London: Routledge

Banaji, S. (2010) ‘Seduced ‘Outsiders’ versus Sceptical ‘Insiders’?: Slumdog Millionaire through its Re/Viewers’ in Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies Volume 7, Issue 1 (May 2010) http://www.participations.org/Volume%207/Issue%201/banaji.pdf 

Hall, S (1997) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, London: Sage. 1997

 Kapur, J (2003)  ‘Free market, branded imagination —
Harry Potter and the commercialization of 
children’s culture’  Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
No. 46. Online at http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc46.2003/kapur.potter/index.html

Note – You can search for other film theory articles at Jump Cut – for instance on the film ‘Spirited Away’, ‘Hoop Dreams, or E.T…

Heilman, E. E. (2003) editor. Harry Potter’s World: Multidisciplinary Critical Perspectives. New York/London. RoutledgeFalmer

The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature Online journal at: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/tlg/index

‘Children on Film’ article at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/446281/

 WEEK 5

Pellegrini, A.D and Blatchford, P. (2000) The child at school: Interactions with peers and teachers. London: Arnold Chapter 5. 

Ringrose, J and Reynold, E (in press) Boys and girls performing normative gendered violence in schools: A critique of bully discourses. In C. Barter and D.Berridge (eds) Children Behaving Badly? Exploring peer violence between children and young people. London: John Wiley and Sons.

Brown, R.K (2009) Childhood as Problems, Problems of Childhood’ in the Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. Qvortrup, J., Corsaro, W.A., and Honig, M-S. (eds) Basingstoke. Palgrave Macmillan, pp 256-273

Phoenix, A. Frosh, S. and Pattman, R, (2003), ‘Producing contradictory masculine subject positions: narratives of threat, homophobia and bullying in 11-14 year old boys’. Journal of Social Issues 59(1) pp179-195

WEEK 6

Dixon, S and Weber, S. (2007) Playspaces, Childhood and Video games. Chapter 1 in Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies. S. Weber and S.Dixon (eds) New York: Palgrave Macmillan pp 17 – 36

Children’s Games in Street and Playground, Opie, Peter and Opie, Iona. 1969, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Pelletier, C. (2008) ‘What education has to teach us about games and game play’ In J. Marsh and R. Willett (eds), Play, digital culture, and learning. London: Routledge

Carr, D (2005) Contexts, Gaming Pleasures and Gendered Preferences, Simulation and Gaming Vol 36 No 4 December 2005 Online at http://sag.sagepub.com/content/vol36/issue4/.

Salen K. and Zimmerman, E. (2004) Rules of Play. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press. 

From Barbie to Mortral Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Cassell, J. and Jenkins, H. (2000) editors. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press

WEEK 7

Barton, L. (1999) ‘Struggle, support and the politics of possibility’, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 1: 1

Liasidou, A. (2010) ‘Special educational needs: a public issue’, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 20:3, 225 – 239

Cole, B.A (2005) Good Faith and Effort?’ Perspectives on educational inclusion. In Disability & Society,Vol. 20, No. 3, May 2005, pp. 331–344 http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/3440/1/Cole2005Good331.pdf

Blume, H (undated) “Autism & The Internet” or “It’s The Wiring, Stupid” at the MIT Communications Forum http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/blume.html

Davis, L.J. (1995) Enforcing Normacly: Disability, Deafness and the Body London: Verso

Oliver, M. (1990) The Politics of Disablement. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Silverman, C (2008) Fieldwork on Another Planet: Social Science Perspectives on the Autism Spectrum, in Biosocieties vol 3 issue 3 pp 325-341 Cambridge University Press http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2201840

WEEK 8

Buckingham, D. (2000) Chapter 2 ‘The Death of Childhood’ in After the Death of Childhood, Oxford: Blackwell pp 21-40

Goldstein, J. (2005) ‘Violent Video Games’, in Handbook of Computer Game Studies. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press  pp 341-359

Ashman, T. (2010) ‘Lessons for digital natives’. Published at guardian.co.uk.1 November 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/classroom-innovation/lessons-for-digital-natives

Prensky, M. (2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001. http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf

 The ‘digital native’ and ‘digital immigrant’: a dangerous opposition. Siân Bayne and Jen Ross (2007) Presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) December 2007 http://www.malts.ed.ac.uk/staff/sian/natives_final.pdf

Willett, R. (2005) ‘Baddies’ in the classroom: Media education and narrative writing.  Literacy 39, 3: 142-148.

WEEK 9

Martens, L. The Cute, the Spectacle and the Practical: Narratives of New Parents and Babies at The Baby Show. In D.Buckingham and V.Tingstad (eds) Childhood and Consumer Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pages 146 – 162

Kenway, J and Bullen E (2001) ‘Inventing the young consumer’, Chapter 2 of Consuming Children: Education-entertainment-advertising  Milton Keynes: Open University Press

McClintock, A. (1995) ‘Soap and commodity spectacle’ excerpts reprinted (page 280-282) in Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, Stuart Hall (ed.) London: Sage. 1997

Cook, D. and Kaiser, S. (2004) Betwixt and Be Tween: Age ambiguity and the sexualization of the female consuming subject. Journal of Consumer Culture. 4 (2): 203-227

WEEK 10

Bojer, H. (2005) Social Justice and the Rights of Children, in Studies in Modern Childhood; Society, Agency Culture. J.Qvortrup (ed.) London: Palgrave Macmillan pp 221-230

‘The International Journal of Children’s Rights’, online at http://brill.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/chil

Unicef : Convention on the Rights of the Child – Website at http://www.unicef.org/crc/

Material from previous years is online at: 

http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/reading-list-roc-seminar/

Please note all meetings in SL will be in text, and that text-chat will be logged and blogged. If text-chat presents accessibility problems please get in touch with the SIG committee so we can sort something out. 

Suggested reading:

S.Bayne and J. Ross (2007) The ‘digital native’ and ‘digital immigrant’: a dangerous opposition. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) December 2007. Online at http://www.malts.ed.ac.uk/staff/sian/natives_final.pdf

Carr, D. and Oliver M. (in press) ‘Second Life, Immersion and Learning’ in Social Computing and Virtual Communities, edited by P. Zaphiris and C.S. Ang. Taylor and Francis. There’s a copy of the draft online here.

We are in the early stages of planning a real world event for January 2011 at the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, University of London – on the topic of inter-disciplinarity, innovation – and games and education research.

2010-2011 supported by the Higher Education Academy

SIG structure:
Chair: Diane Carr (Institute of Education, University of London)
Committee:
John Kirriemuir (Virtual Worlds Watch)
Hamish Macleod and Fiona Littleton (University of Edinburgh)
Natasha Whiteman (University of Leicester)
Martin Oliver (Institute of Education, University of London)

The aims of the SIG :

Convened by Eduserv

London Knowledge Lab
Monday Jan 25th 2010

Ralph Schroeder from the Oxford Internet Institute is the invited speaker.  

Programme

IOE’s MA Education and Technology in Clinical Practice. Module: Education and Technology in Clinical Practice: perspectives and issues. Session 9: Technology, disability and virtual worlds. Session Tutor: Diane Carr

The aim of this session is to explore issues of ethics and research design, while discussing disability, identity and technology. It is not unusual to encounter debates about disability, education and  technology that implicitly construct disability as an individual deficit that can be solved or ‘fixed’ by a corresponding, compensating tool. We will examine the problematic aspects of this approach while making reference to Disability Studies perspectives and recent research into the experiences of deaf users of Second Life. In 2007, the integration of a ‘voice’ feature within Second Life meant that users or ‘residents’ had the option to speak to one another via microphone, rather than typing ‘chat text’. This controversial new feature had a considerable impact on some deaf residents, who found themselves suddenly ousted from friendships, organizations and events in Second Life. Meanwhile educators working in Second Life have embraced the voice tool with enthusiasm. We will discuss and disentangle some of these issues, while considering the links between community and identity, disability and technology.

Preparatory reading

Moser, I. (2006) ‘Disability and the promises of technology: Technology, subjectivity and embodiment within an order of the normal’. Information, Communication & Society, 9 (3), 373 – 395.

This article by Lennard Davis http://www.lennarddavis.com/downloads/deafnessandtheriddle.pdf

This guardian article ‘My daughter lost her hearing…’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/15/lost-hearing-musically-gifted

Excerpt from Branson and Miller’s 2002 book ‘Damned for Their Difference’, pp 224-229  

See also ‘Learning from Online Worlds’ project blog http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/

http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/category/accessibility-deafness-virtual-worlds/

http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/9a-deaf-in-second-life-paper/

Meanwhile – some randomly assembled links to accessibility and podcast things (there’s lots and lots out there…)

http://www.gcast.com/u/kingettblue/main?nr=1&&s=66908556

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/12/podcast_accessi.html

http://www.stonedeafpilots.com/?p=6

http://www.irishdeafkids.ie/2009/transcribepod-podcasts-accessible/

http://seanzdenek.com/?page_id=23

The Play Research Group at the University of the West of England, Bristol seeks contributions in the form of research outlines, position papers, media projects and provocations on the theme of

Bad Games will:

· Thematise games and play as a central yet ambivalent characteristic of digital culture. Question influential assumptions of the liberatory potential of interactivity
· Reflect on, revise, reject, renovate or otherwise refresh critical modelings of ludic digital culture that assume it be an intrinsically positive, creative or subversive alternative to ‘old media’
· Complicate simplistic moral panics about bad games and their effects
· Consider bad games in the context and rubrics of other ‘bad’ media theory topics like paracinema, trash culture, and comics

Bad Games might include

Sex games//Mind games//War games//Boring games//Work games//Power games//Horror games//Cruel Games//E-gambling//SimCulture//Ludic figures in cinema, from Funny Games USA to The Nines, to Intacto//The atrocity exhibition of Reality TV//The military-entertainment complex//The infantilization of adults by Nintendo ds//Parental guidance: children playing violence//Computer games’ temporal and financial demands
Repetitive games

The colloquium will be structured so that participants share proposals and dialogue, discussion and responses rather than as a presenter/question time format.

COST: £20 – payable on the day.
Tea/Coffee and Lunch will be provided.