Tweet  Here’s the abstract of a paper Nicci Pallitt and I just had accepted by the journal Language & Education: ‘Grand Theft South Africa’: Games, literacy and inequality in consumer childhoods By Marion Walton and Nicola Pallitt Discussions of ‘game literacy’ focus on the informal learning and literacies associated with games but seldom address  the [...]

TweetI’ve always been impressed by the way Henry Jenkins makes connections between computer games and broader issues of children’s culture, I find this infinitely preferable to the psychological studies which treat children’s media use as a purely individual matter — (psychological studies of children and the “effects” of violence in the media etc tend to [...]