Postdigital videogames literacies: thinking with, through, and beyond James Gee’s learning principles

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This article is a collective response to the 2003 iteration of James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Gee’s book, a foundational text for those working in game studies, literacy studies, and education, identified 36 principles of ‘good learning’ which he argued were built into the design of good games, and which have since been used to unsettle the landscape of formal education. This article brings together 21 short theoretical and empirical contributions which centre postdigital perspectives to re-engage with, and extend, the arguments first raised by Gee regarding the relationship between videogames and learning. Organised into five groups, these contributions suggest that concepts and attitudes associated with the postdigital offer new thinking tools for challenging grand narrative claims about the educative potential of technologies while also providing rich analytical frames for revisiting Gee’s claims in terms of postdigital videogame literacies.

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Authors/Creators:	Bacalja, A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2440-1488 Nichols, T.P. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8648-1276 Robinson, B. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2983-0206 Bhatt, I. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3577-1257 Kucharczyk, S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1362-0594 Zomer, C. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-4462 Nash, B. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8693-5912 Dupont, B. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9383-0190 De Cock, R. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6933-0700 Zaman, B. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1933-1438 Bonenfant, M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7680-6591 Grosemans, E. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7035-8313 Abrams, S.S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0535-9170 Vallis, C. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0143-4145 Koutsogiannis, D. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9506-7707 Dishon, G. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1747-403X Reed, J. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6701-6531 Byers, T. https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9927-7679 Fawzy, R.M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3638-0514 Hsu, H.-P. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3943-2690 Lowien, N. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8907-2198 Barton, G. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2703-238X Callow, J. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2587-1104 Liu, Z. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4594-4366 Serafini, F. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1391-0631 Vermeire, Z. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7911-9148 deHaan, J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4775-4112 Croasdale, A. https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6049-0867 Torres-Toukoumidis, A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7727-3985 Xu, X. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6430-5810 Schnaider, K. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1434-3077
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Keywords:	Videogames; Postdigital; Literacies; James Gee; Schooling; Technology; Collective writing
Dates:	Published: December 2024 Published (online): 22 October 2024 Accepted: 18 September 2024
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2024 10:36
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 10:36
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1007/s42438-024-00510-3
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:220638

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