Disengaged teenage boys engaged in quality argumentation in 81% of their argumentative exchanges while chatting in World of Warfare¶

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q2 i? In an ethnographic study of 22 teenage boys identified as disengaged at school, subjects chatting in the fantasy multiuser videogame World of Warfare engaged in quality argumentation in 81% of their argumentative exchanges. → Gerry Stahl 2013

Evidence¶

Gerry Stahl 2013¶

Gerry Stahl, Nancy Law & Friedrich Hesse. (2013). Reigniting CSCL flash themes. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 8:369–374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-013-9185-0

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The editorial reports an ethnographic study by Esra Alagoz of 22 teenage boys identified as disengaged at school, finding they "engaged in quality argumentation in 81 % of their argumentative exchanges" in WoW chat, in contrast to their school performance.

"The investigation concludes that in contrast to their performance in school and contrary to expectations based on earlier publications on argumentation, when the subjects chatted in the fantasy multiuser videogame of World of Warfare (WoW) they “engaged in quality argumentation in 81 % of their argumentative exchanges. ”"

Discussion¶

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