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

‘Free the Sheep’ song

(video removed; audio only to preserve

anonymity of participants)

Enjoyment

'musicking' (Small, 1999)

Parody / Remix(Opie, 1959)

Power

'a different sort of attention'

(Frith, 1996)

So...

Supervisory Gaze

Reciprocal Relationship

Interrelated Texts

Temporal Focus

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