[ecrea] Call for Lesson Plans - Teaching Media Quarterly CFLR - Teaching About (and With) Digital Games

Teaching Media Quarterly Call for Lesson Plans: “Teaching About (and 
With) Digital Games”

Submission deadline: July 1, 2017

Digital games have become an increasingly ubiquitous form of activity 
and entertainment since their emergence in the mid-twentieth century. 
Today, interactive games constitute a multi-million dollar industry. The 
role of digital games culturally and socially continues to be a topic of 
debate, with positions proliferating as more and more people play. For 
example, the gaming community recently exploded in a 'controversy' known 
as GamerGate, in which some gamers spoke out against the ways in which 
video game representations can perpetuate misogyny and racism. Other 
gamers reacted aggressively to such criticism, threatening and harassing 
those expressing such views. Meanwhile, popular discourse has long 
imagined gaming as a kind of drug, addicting and destructive, capable of 
making individuals unproductive, anti-social, even violent.

At the same time, however, the format and function of digital games have 
been embraced by sectors beyond arts and entertainment. Games-based 
learning, for example, is a pedagogical practice aimed at enhancing 
student engagement by making the classroom more ‘game-like’ in order to 
encourage risk-taking, experimentation, collaboration and/or 
competition. In higher education and beyond, “gamification” - that is, 
the adoption of games and game-design principles in real world contexts 
- has put games to work.

For this upcoming issue, the editors of Teaching Media Quarterly seek 
lesson plans that explore how media and communication instructors might 
approach the study of digital games as an increasingly important element 
of the global media landscape.

Some possible areas of exploration might include, but are not limited to:

Digital games and transmedia storytelling

Gender, race, sexuality and the production and/or consumption of digital 
games

The work of representations within digital games

Popular discourse and academic debate on the relationship between 
violence and video games

"Gamergate," cyber-bullying, and harassment

Digital games and the military-industrial complex

Digital games as forms of art and/or activism

"Gamification" of education, marketing, healthcare, etc.

"Advergames," or the use of games in advertising

Disabilities and gaming

Digital games and participatory culture (e.g., fandoms, modding, etc.)

How playing digital games can shape experiences of sociality, community 
and public space

Virtual economies and their relationships to real-world economic 
practices (e.g., entrepreneurship and consumerism in multi-player games, 
'gold-farming,' etc.)

Exploitation and overwork in the digital games industry


Please upload your submission as a single Microsoft Word or RTF document 
to Teaching Media Quarterly at http://pubs.lib.umn.edu/tmq/ using the 
“Submit Lesson Plan” link in the sidebar.  Please ensure that your 
submission conforms to TMQ submission guidelines 
http://pubs.lib.umn.edu/tmq/submission_guidelines.html; for review 
policies see http://pubs.lib.umn.edu/tmq/policies.html.


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