Share Paper: Gamer Discretion Advised: How MMOG Players Determine the Quality and Usefulness of Online Resources
Tuesday, March 4 2:50 PM-3:10 PM Royale Skybox 210
Abstract: As members of a knowledge society, users must identify, evaluate, and utilize information from a variety of texts, across a sundry of resources. Although these skills are vital for productive citizenship in a post-typographic world, there are few investigations that examine multiple text comprehension in highly complex environments or describe how these specific skills might be of interest to educators. As a result, this research describes the criteria gamers report using in order to determine the quality of a resource within the context of the World of Warcraft. The literacy skills used by gamers in this environment provide us with ...