Andrew Burn has published a new book with Routledge – Literature, Videogames and Learning. Its central argument is that literature and videogames are cognate cultural forms, and that videogame transformations of literature can help us think in new ways about narrative aesthetics, literary value, and literacy. It draws on research projects with The Globe and the British Library, developing game-authoring
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Read this article by Kate Cowan on how children’s play has responded to the COVID 19 pandemic. it build on research in the Play Observatory project. Cite this article as: Kate Cowan, “Play in the Pandemic,” in PanMeMic, 26/07/2020, https://panmemic.hypotheses.org/?p=683 The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on all aspects of life. For children, it’s had major consequences for where, when,
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This summer DARE affiliate Dr. Angela Colvert from the University of Roehampton undertook a research project with Punchdrunk Enrichment [PE]- the educational and outreach arm of immersive theatre company Punchdrunk. Representatives from museums, galleries, academic institutions, game design companies and schools were invited to a presentation of Angela’s findings relating to the intensity of engagement experienced by children and teachers
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Summer 2018 saw the publication of DARE member Michelle Cannon’s book – Digital Media in Education: Teaching, Learning and Literacy Practices with Young Learners (Palgrave). In the book she argues for dynamic and relevant school experiences for primary and early secondary learners that embed film and digital media production. She proposes a vision of literacy that combines new technologies with
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The MAGiCAL team (Andrew Burn, Abel Drew and Bruno de Paula) have developed a game-authoring tool for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, working with Digital Curator Stella Wisdom of the British Library. Based on the successful Missionmaker software, rebuilt in Unity during the Playing Beowulf project, this version incorporates characters, landscapes, objects and even cauldron ingredients for users to make satisfying digital games
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PLAYING THE ARCHIVE: memory, community and mixed reality play This project is an ambitious programme of research and cultural production, exploring the nature of play by bringing together archives, spaces and technologies of play, along with people who play, both old and young. It runs from September 2017 to August 2019. You can view the dedicated project page here The
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The online open access Film Education Journal (FEJ) was launched on 20th June 2018. DARE has been closely involved – with Andrew Burn and Mark Reid as co-editors, and Michelle Cannon and John Potter as editorial board members. This group has been working with the General Editor, Jamie Chambers and UCL IOE Press, to bring the journal to life and
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DARE members John Potter and Andrew Burn have taken part in the E-Media Education Lab (EMEL) project which is in its final dissemination phase (hence the event at the UCL Knowledge Lab, 2nd May 2017). This has been a 5-country project funded by the Erasmus Plus EU scheme, involving six partners, the co-ordinator being Média Animation in Brussels. It began
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Disability and Community: Dis/engagement, Dis/enfranchisement, Dis/parity and Dissent AKA the D4D Project D4D is an AHRC funded (2016-2020) Connected Communities programme research project exploring the evolving ways in which disabled people express, perform, experience and practice ‘community’. STOP PRESS Read interview with Professor Diane Carr on her work in the D4D project on disability and able bodies in games. https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/disability-assessment-and-able-bodies-in-games-and-science-fiction-researcher-diane-carr-on-her-d4d-project-playful-bodies-technology-and-community/ The
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Professor Andrew Burn and Dr Chris Richards have won the American Folklore Society’s Opie Prize for their co-edited book, Children’s Games in the New Media Age: Childlore, Media and the Playground (Ashgate, 2014). The prize reflects the collaborative effort of the authors in the book, including Professor Jackie Marsh, Dr Julia Bishop, Dr John Potter, Grethe Mitchell and Andy Clarke,
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