TY - GEN
T1 - Pedagogical dramas and transformational play
T2 - 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2009
AU - Barab, Sasha A.
AU - Dodge, Tyler
AU - Ingram-Goble, Adam
AU - Volk, Charlene
AU - Peppler, Kylie
AU - Pettyjohn, Patrick
AU - Solomou, Maria
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Whereas traditionally stories involve an author, a performer, and an audience, much of the power of videogames as media for advancing narrative springs from their affordance for the player to occupy more than one role-and sometimes all three-simultaneously. In the narratively-rich videogames that we design, players have the opportunity to perform actions, experience consequences, and reflect on the underlying social values that these situations were designed to engage. Here, our focus is on the use of these games to engage children in experiencing ideological struggles associated with realizing social commitments. Toward this end, we will present our theoretical argument for the power of games as a contemporary story medium, grounding this discussion in the demonstration of three game design projects and their implementations.
AB - Whereas traditionally stories involve an author, a performer, and an audience, much of the power of videogames as media for advancing narrative springs from their affordance for the player to occupy more than one role-and sometimes all three-simultaneously. In the narratively-rich videogames that we design, players have the opportunity to perform actions, experience consequences, and reflect on the underlying social values that these situations were designed to engage. Here, our focus is on the use of these games to engage children in experiencing ideological struggles associated with realizing social commitments. Toward this end, we will present our theoretical argument for the power of games as a contemporary story medium, grounding this discussion in the demonstration of three game design projects and their implementations.
KW - Educational games
KW - Interactive narrative
KW - Social commitment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=72149101276&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_42
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_42
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72149101276
SN - 3642106420
SN - 9783642106422
VL - 5915 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 332
EP - 335
BT - Interactive Storytelling - Second Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2009, Proceedings
Y2 - 9 December 2009 through 11 December 2009
ER -