In this essay, we begin with a theoretical articulation the worked example as a form of invitational scholarship that provides new media scholars, in particular, an important outlet for their work. A worked example leverages purposively-selected instances and multiple modes of discourse (e.g., videos, pictures, expositions, games, quotes, etc.) to establish an invitation, in response…

Pop culture now tends to stress production and not just consumption, as well as expertise certified and earned within digital communities and not only via professional forms of degrees and certification. The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy: The Hero of Timelines | James Paul Gee

See, the games community has it backwards: the point is not to “legitimize” games as art, whatever that would mean. The point is not to shoehorn games into some received, stable, agreed upon notion of what art is, as if there is such a notion. The point is to ask the question, what do videogames…