Meta-Literacy in Gameworlds

Susana Pajares Tosca; Silviano Carrasco Yelmo

doi:10.7238/a.v0i55.2936

Meta-Literacy in Gameworlds

Susana Pajares Tosca
, Silviano Carrasco Yelmo

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Abstract

This paper proposes the notion of “meta-literacy”, understood as the player´s ability to navigate between spheres of reality and/or cross boundaries when interacting with a gameworld. We examine how meta-aesthetics functions in videogames and argue that it is relevant at both the fictional level (intertextual literacy) and at the ludic level (self-referential literacy).

Original language	English
Journal	Anàlisi
Volume	55
Issue number	December 2016
Pages (from-to)	31-47
Number of pages	17
ISSN	0211-2175
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i55.2936
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

gameworlds
video games
meta-literacy
meta-aesthetics
self-referentiality
metalepsis

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