{"product_id":"meta-tuning-justice-game-design-and-black-youth-agency-paperback-softback-9781625349361","title":"Meta-Tuning Justice; Game Design and Black Youth Agency (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625349361","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMeta-Tuning Justice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGame Design and Black Youth Agency\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaquana Cooke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625349361\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 July 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 17 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A rare and rigorous account of how games operate as cognitive and social systems, not merely as texts or technologies. Cooke shows how players learn what futures are imaginable through play, and how those learned expectations can be disrupted, redesigned, and reoriented. This work provides both a sharp diagnostic framework and a generative set of tools for analyzing and redesigning the cognitive and social work games perform.\"—Constance Steinkuehler, Games Learning Society (GLS) Center Co-Director, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Laquana Cooke has written a fantastic book that contributes to our understanding of racial equity in teaching and learning by making meaningful connections between game studies, Science and Technology Studies, and educational research.\"—Michael Lachney, Michigan State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring how Black youth are reshaping game design to dismantle stereotypes and spark social change \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the early 2000s, digital gaming rose to cultural and economic prominence. Communities of color, however, and especially Black youth, were largely excluded from gaming culture. The rare Black character in games tended to reinforce stereotypes, while racial bias was often surreptitiously embedded in game design platforms—what decolonial scholars call “whitestream” computing. Progressive game design education initiatives and new technologies have recently begun to dismantle these barriers. Yet, because biases remain, historically excluded young people still need to actively reconfigure these digital spaces to fully develop and convey their own perspectives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMeta-Tuning Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, digital rhetoric scholar Laquana Cooke explores how Black youth express cultural identity and challenge dominant narratives through innovative game design. Cooke introduces the Transformative Constructionist Learning (TCL) paradigm and its core theory of “meta-tuning”—the idea that students are better able to adjust to new challenges through trial-and-error and experimentation in educational environments that correspondingly adjust to their evolving learning needs. In contrast to traditional education practices, which assume the neutrality of technology, Cooke approaches it as a tool for social transformation. Drawing on the TCL paradigm, she explores how the unique cultural algorithms and expressions (like popping and locking dance forms) that inform the programming and designs of Black youth represent a powerful form of resistance and creation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through rich ethnographic case studies across multiple educational settings, and with gaming as its experimental center, this book presents a compelling vision of how TCL and meta-tuning can help make technologies more equitable. Cooke’s innovative study offers insights crucial to scholars and practitioners in game studies, Science and Technology Studies, STEM education, and racial equity in digital learning.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Spaces: Knowledge, Power, and Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Metatuning TCL for Community Learning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Black Identities, Predispositions, and Motivations: Knowledge, Power, and Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Metatuning TCL for Fluid Styles of Coding and Designing Part 1: With Stacia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Metatuning TCL for Fluid Styles of Coding and Designing Part 2: With Rita\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Metatuning TCL for Artistic Motivations (The Outlier Chapter)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III. Parlaying Values—Personal Goals, Cultural and Organizational Changes: Knowledge, Power, and Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Metatuning TCL for Variant Social Values\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Metatuning TCL for Variant Commercial Valuing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Metatuning TCL for Communal Values and Design Fluidity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633062342936,"sku":"9781625349361","price":21.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/meta-tuning-justice-game-design-and-black-youth-agency-paperback-softback-9781625349361","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}