This Video Game We Call War’: Multimodal Recruitment in America’s Army Game by Nancy Welch
This article focuses on America’s Army Game, the first-person-shooter video game now being peddled by the U.S. Army for classroom use. In my community-based literacy class, where students partner with children and teens at a local youth center, this “game” helps us to grasp and problematize literacy sponsorship and recruitment-the idea that literacy education involves…