The Ethics of Playing, Researching, and Teaching Games in the Writing Classroom

1. Introduction: Playing with the Rules.- 2. Crash and Burn.- 3. From Actuality to Possibility: Reckoning with the Ethics of Failure in Pedagogy.- 4. Waiting for Players: Rooms, Lobbies, and Hosting Experiences.- 5. Playing Games with Our Lives: What Critical Pedagogy Can Teach Us About the Ethics of Games in the Writing Classroom.- 6. Procedural Ethics and a Night in the Woods.- 7. "To See You Made Humble": Agency and Ethos in The Stanley Parable.- 8. Dromopoeia: Teaching Ethopeia, Prudence (Phronesis), and Ethics (Well-being) with Avatar.- 9. This Isn't Supposed to Be Fun: Using Game-Based Writing Projects as a Form of Pragmatic Ethical Inquiry in the Composition Classroom.- 10. Procedural-Relational Power Analysis: A Model for Deconstructing and Intervening in Everyday Games.- 11. Surfacing Values in Difficult Conversations: Game-based Training to Lower the Stakes on Challenging Topics.- 12. The Hardcore Gamer is Dead: Long Live Gamers.- 13. Ethos and Interaction in The Elder Scrolls Online.- 14. Writing for Gaming Audiences: A Case Study.- 15. The Ethics of Treating Online Gaming Forums as Research Data.- 16. So, You Want to Start a Research Archive? Ethical Issues Researching and Archiving Video Game History.- 17. Toward a Broader Conception of Theorycrafting.- 18. Using World of Warcraft for Translingual Practice: Teaching Recontextualization Strategies.

Richard Colby is the Assistant Director for First-Year Writing and Teaching Professor for the Writing Program at the University of Denver, USA. He co-edited the collection Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games (2013) and has published several articles about video games and teaching.

Matthew S.S. Johnson is Professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. He specializes in rhetoric and composition, digital literacies, and video game studies. He is Reviews Editor for the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds. His scholarship focuses on dismantling boundaries between work and play.

Rebekah Shultz Colby is Teaching Professor at the University of Denver, USA. She examines how video games inform digital literacies and digital rhetoric. She co-edited Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games (2013).