Children's games in the new media age : childlore, media and the playground /

Conceived to explore the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions: that children's play is dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games. The...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Burn, Andrew (Andrew Nicholas) (Editor), Richards, Christopher Owen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington : Ashgate, 2014
Series:Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Children's playground games in the new media age / Andrew Burn
  • The Opie recordings : what's left to be heard? / Laura Jopson, Andrew Burn and Jonathan Robinson
  • 'That's how the whole hand-clap thing passes on' : online/offline transmission and multimodal variation in a children's clapping game / Julia C. Bishop
  • Rough play, play fighting and surveillance : school playgrounds as sites of dissonance, controversy and fun / Chris Richards
  • The relationship between online and offline play : friendship and exclusion / Jackie Marsh
  • Remixing children's cultures : media-referenced play on the playground / Rebekah Willett
  • The game catcher : a computer game and research tool for embodied movement / Grethe Mitchell
  • Co-curating children's play cultures / John Potter
  • Postscript : the people in the playground / Chris Richards and Andrew Burn.