Essays about: "ESSAY on game"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 52 essays containing the words ESSAY on game.

  1. 21. "Who am I now?" Sense of Gender and Place in Digital Gameplay : Affective Dimensions of gameplay in XCOM: Enemy Within

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier

    Author : Martin Andersson; [2016]
    Keywords : game studies; space; gender; performativity; interpellation; assemblage theory; affect theory; digital games; human-computer interaction;

    Abstract : In this essay I analyze the ways in which gender and space are shaped and made sense of through digital gameplay. Specifically in the turn based strategy game XCOM: Enemy Within for the MacBook Air with a computer mouse as the primary input device. READ MORE

  3. 22. A White Orphan’s Educational Path in British India : A Postcolonial Perspective on Rudyard Kipling’s Novel Kim

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Karin Uhlén; [2016]
    Keywords : Rudyard Kipling; Kim; postcolonial theory; pedagogy; the British Empire; India; white orphan children; father figures.;

    Abstract : In this essay Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim (1901) is dealt with from a postcolonial perspective, and the aim is to show how three father figures - Colonel Creighton, Mahbub Ali and the lama - individually influence Kim’s education. Furthermore, how their point of view on education and parenting can be used to understand the larger concepts of postcolonialism and the pedagogy of Empire. READ MORE

  4. 23. News in Social media. Social media: the newspaper of the future

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Andreas Forsner; [2015-09-09]
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    Abstract : Abstract This essay examines the relationship between social media use and online news consumption. The relationship and the mechanisms of online news consumption are further examined with political interest and social media use motivations. The study is conducted using survey data from the 2013 SOM-survey from the SOM-institute. READ MORE

  5. 24. Maxime Miranda in Minimis: Reimagining Swarm Consciousness and Planetary Responsibility

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Denise Ask Nunes; [2015]
    Keywords : Swarm Consciousness; insects; science-fiction; Jacques Derrida; umwelt; Jakob von Uexküll; Mitchell Tomashow; eco-criticism; planetary responsibility; Robert A. Heinlein; David Malouf; Orson Scott Card; Hayao Miyazaki;

    Abstract : This essay explores Swarm Consciousness in relation to the novels Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Remembering Babylon by David Malouf, and the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki. Through these novels, Swarm Consciousness can be reimagined in order to challenge the ways insects have previously been considered in literature. READ MORE

  6. 25. Hunger is Not a Game. Using “The Hunger Games” to Encourage. Critical Thinking in the ESL Classroom

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Suzana Geshtakovska; [2014-02-20]
    Keywords : engelska; The Hunger Games; female hero; dystopian novel; global issues; existential questions; book project; upper-secondary school; English; critical thinking; education;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on the English 6 course for upper secondary school. I have created a book project that includes methods and pedagogical theories both represented in the Swedish school system such as the socio-cultural theory, the cognitive theory and behaviourism as well as less known theory such as critical literacy. READ MORE