Identifying the effects of online templates, such as empty state pages (ESPs), sheds light on
the user writing habits and best practices for user design. By using assemblage theory and …

This article examines how empty state pages (ESPs) constrain user-generated
communication through the ethical lens of Bourdieu's habitus. The authors define ESPs as …

Ecocritical approaches to videogames need to remain open to more realistic visual
representations of nature in commercial videogames. A number of ecocritics have argued …

Communication and collaboration are essential parts of the game development process.
However, during the global pandemic, the shift to remote work marked a sudden change in …

Relying on rhetorical analysis, this article explores the rhetoric and ethics of a particular type
of designer-and player-created technical communication genre, video patch notes, to further …

Mediating Nature considers how technology acts as a mediating device in the construction
and circulation of images that inform how we see and know nature. Scholarship in …

This article examines a case study of a video game based course relying on embodied
gameful design as the foundation of its game-based pedagogy. Moving away from some of …

This dissertation examines how video game design elements influence writing and learning,
and argues for a video game based pedagogy informed by the principles of gameful design …

When playing a video game, players not only take part in the social-semiotic system which
the game represents, but also the moral judgments required by the act of play. That is …