exploring textual landscapes: impromptu singing around minecraft
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Exploring textual
landscapes: the lived
experience of an
after-school
Minecraft Club.
Chris Bailey, LRA, December 2014
@mrchrisjbaileywww.mrchrisjbailey.co.uk
'Investigating the lived experience of a children's virtual world after-school
club.'
• Minecraft
• Year long ethnography
• Y6 children (10 – 11 years)
• Laptops / iPads
• ‘Virtual community’
Theoretical Context
New Literacy Studies (Street, 2003)
Multiliteracies (Cope and Kalantzis, 2000)
Hybrid sites (Burnett and Bailey, 2014)
'...the multidimensional
and multimodal
landscapes in and
through which we conduct
our lives in a text-rich
society'
(Carrington, 2005)
'Spontaneous Vocalising' (Young, 2004)
Unrehearsed
Intertextual
Single or multiple performers
(Un)Related to gameplay
Fragments
Private / Public
Different trajectories
Memetic / Viral
Minecraft Club Playlist
1. 'William Tell Overture' - Rossini
2. 'I can swing my sword' - Tobascus
3. 'Sittin' on tha' toilet' - Nonnie
4. 'Going to the Basement' - Original
5. 'The Tim Jim Song' - Original
6. 'Bob the Builder' theme tune
7. 'Everything is Awesome' - Tegan and Sara
8. 'Do they know it's Christmas?' - Band Aid
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