Epistemic Genres: New Formations of Play (Bloomsbury), explores new ways of categorizing games based on player experience, instead of formal features (like "first person shooter").
"This anthology brings together scholars from around the world to theorize and explore “epistemic genres” of digital games, which are defined by the social uses and meanings attributed to different constellations of games by the communities that play, make, and study them" Bloomsbury
"Betsy Brey Instructor in Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She was Editor-in-Chief of online publication First Person Scholar for three years. She has published chapters in several books, as well as articles in The Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric and Rhetor" (Bloomsbury).
Dr. Brey is an alum of the former Master of English program, with a Writing Studies Emphasis, and a Minor in Literacy and Rhetorical Studies at UMD. For more information on current programs in ELWS, visit the Department home page.