Rocksmith All Nite: Technology-Mediated Guitar Learning in an Online Affinity Space

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dc.contributor.advisorMarone, Vittorio
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez, Ruben C.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberFies, Carmen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberYuen, Timothy T.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSebald, David
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-3049
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-12T19:51:33Z
dc.date.available2024-02-12T19:51:33Z
dc.date.issued2019
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dc.description.abstractIn efforts to gain a deeper understanding of how technologies can provide alternative ways for people to learn how to play a musical instrument, this dissertation explores how digital games can inspire and foster music learning with the support of online communities in which people gather to learn, share, and collaborate. These communities have been defined in the literature as affinity spaces (Gee, 2018), a concept that builds upon Lave and Wenger's (1991) framework of communities of practice and highlights their informal and interest-driven features. This qualitative study uses both discourse analysis and multimodal analysis to examine how people discuss learning to play the guitar by using the PlayStation 4 game Rocksmith with the support of an online affinity space dedicated to this game. The research question for this study is: How do people discuss learning to play the guitar through Rocksmith in an online affinity space?In order to answer this research question, user posts were collected from the official online discussion forum dedicated to the game and analyzed using discourse analysis and multimodal analysis in order to identify how people discuss learning to play music through playful technologies (such as the Rocksmith game) with the support of a dedicated online affinity space.
dc.description.departmentInterdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
dc.format.extent160 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.isbn9781392446102
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/5135
dc.languageen
dc.subjectguitar learning
dc.subjectRocksmith
dc.subjecttechnology-mediated guitar learning
dc.subject.classificationInstructional design
dc.subject.classificationMusic education
dc.subject.classificationEducational technology
dc.titleRocksmith All Nite: Technology-Mediated Guitar Learning in an Online Affinity Space
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thesis.degree.departmentInterdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy

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