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\title{Plan Paper Draft}
\author{Martin Cahill}
\date{16 October 2009}
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The following is a small excerpt from my Plan paper with John Sheehy.

Jacques Derrida brought up the subject of difference with regard to language. He felt that  ��difference characterized language and all reality� ~\cite{Ryan}. He goes on to state that ��identity is based on difference� ~\cite{Ryan}. Video games act in a manner similar to Derrida�s description of writing, in that both video games and writing are made up of signs of signs. Video games have a constructed reality. The objects, people, and places are all representative, not a single one actually exists. An object, person, or place within a game exists as a sign of what it represents. 

The Game Design Reader put together by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman contains a short excerpt from James Paul Gee�s book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Gee brings up the point that literacy need not apply solely to reading and writing, but other forms of text as well. He lists several different forms, from �poetry� to �newspapers� and goes on to say �each of these domains has its own rules and requirements� ~\cite{Gee}. Games too, require their own set of rules necessary to their understanding.
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itionally, Gee states �while you don�t need to be able to enact a particular social practice to be able to understand texts from or about that social practice, you can potentially give deeper meanings to those texts if you can� ~\cite{Gee}. He uses the word �potentially� here as the �producer� as he calls it, is deeply embedded within the social practices of the texts, which while doing so grants the producer the benefit of understanding, that embedded nature allows the producer to �take the meanings and values of the texts associated with those practices for granted in an unquestioning way� ~\cite{Gee}. 
	Gee suggests that we ��think in terms of semiotic domains�[so] we can say that people are�literate [partially or fully] in a domain if they can recognize�and/or produce meanings in the domain� ~\cite{Gee}. 

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