Book Review: Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. By Alenda Y. Chang
It is tricky to review books published in 2019, just before the pandemic. Playing Nature: Ecology in Videogames is a case in point: a book about ecology and games is timely. This is particularly so for the journal “Digital Culture and Education” – when so many are moving their teaching towards digit...
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| Language: | English |
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Digital Culture & Education (DCE)
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Digital Culture & Education |
| Online Access: | https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf15af7a259990001706378/t/5efcb2d1b71a4b72ba8ca2f1/1593619155808/Book-Review-merged.pdf |
| Summary: | It is tricky to review books published in 2019, just before the pandemic. Playing Nature: Ecology in Videogames is a case in point: a book about ecology and games is timely. This is particularly so for the journal “Digital Culture and Education” – when so many are moving their teaching towards digital culture in ways they had not expected. This is as true for parents logging on to YouTube to remind themselves about long division as it is for university lecturers experimenting with OBS Studio. What can we teach from this book about play and ecology in digital culture at and after
this juncture?
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| ISSN: | 1836-8301 |