Gee's engagement with game studies was instrumental multidisciplinarity, not substantive interdisciplinarity¶
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q1 i? The 2007 revised edition added game studies sources without substantive chapter changes, serving the instrumental purpose of legitimizing games research. → Kirk M. Lundblade 2025
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Kirk M. Lundblade 2025¶
Kirk M. Lundblade. (2025). What Video Games Have Taught Us: Two Decades of Gaming and Learning. In Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum Books). https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31913371.9
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Applying Julie Klein's typology, the chapter assesses both editions of Gee's monograph and finds the scope 'remains as disciplinarily siloed as the original edition,' with game studies literature added as 'extraneous background reading' to legitimize games research rather than to improve methods or theories.
"but is largely added through new endnote sources providing extraneous background reading on topics already promoted and addressed from a highly disciplinary context"
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Gee's engagement with game studies was instrumental multidisciplinarity, not substantive interdisciplinarity |
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Gee's engagement with game studies was instrumental multidisciplinarity, not substantive interdisciplinarity |
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