Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century -- Part I: Gaming and Literacy -- 1 Computer Gaming as Literacy -- 2 Transcultural Literacies of Gaming -- 3 Lost (and Found) in Translation: Game Localization, Cultural Models, and Critical Literacy -- 4 Gaming, Identity, and Literacy -- Interchapter I: What Some Girls Say about Gaming -- Part II: The Social Dimensions of Gaming -- 5 Narrative, Action, and Learning: The Stories of Myst -- 6 Gaming, Agency, and Imagination: Locating Gaming within a Larger Constellation of Literacies -- 7 Relationship Gaming and Identity: Stephanie and Josh -- 8 Dungeons, Dragons, and Discretion: A Gateway to Gaming, Technology, and Literacy -- Interchapter II: What Some 20-Something Players Say about Gaming -- Part III: Gaming and Difference -- 9 "A Real Effect on the Gameplay": Computer Gaming, Sexuality, and Literacy -- 10 Taking Flight: Learning Differences Meet Gaming Literacies -- 11 Racing toward Representation: An Understanding of Racial Representation in Video Games -- 12 Portrait of a Gray Gamer: A Macro-Self Reading the Big Picture -- 13 Gender Matters: Literacy, Learning, and Gaming in One American Family -- Interchapter III: What Early Gamers Say about Gaming -- Afterword: The Return of the Player -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.