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Children's virtual play worlds : culture, learning, and participation / edited by Anne Burke & Jackie Marsh.
Van Pelt Library GV1469.17.S63 C45 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New literacies and digital epistemologies ; vol. 58.
- New literacies and digital epistemologies, 1523-9543 ; vol. 58
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- Shared virtual environments.
- Computers and children.
- Internet games.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2013]
- Summary:
- As children's digital lives become more relevant to schools and educators, the question of play and learning is being revisited in new and interesting ways. Children's Virtual Play Worlds provides a reasoned account of children's play engagements in virtual worlds through a number of scholarly perspectives, exploring key concerns and issues which have come to the forefront. The global nature of the research in this edited volume embraces many different areas, including school-based research, sociology, cultural studies, psychology, and contract law, showing how children's play and learning in virtual spaces has great potential and possibilities. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the changing landscapes of children's play worlds / Anne Burke and Jackie Marsh
- Post-industrial play: understanding the relationship between traditional and converged forms of play in the early years / Susan Edwards
- Developmental implications for children's virtual worlds / Kaveri Subrahmanyam
- Stardolls and the virtual playground: how identity construction works in the new digital frontier / Anne Burke
- Breaking the ice: play, friendships and online identities in young children's use of virtual worlds / Jackie Marsh
- "Cause I know how to get friends-plus they like my dancing": (l)earning the nexus of practice in Club Penguin / Karen E. Wohlwend and Tolga Kargin
- Virtual clay or virtual play: identity shaping, consumer building and corporate affiliation versus literacies affordance inside barbiegirls.com / Jan Connelly
- May the force be with you: harnessing the power of brain-computer games / Isabel Pederson and Jennifer Rowsell
- "Hey! can you show me how to do this?": digital games as a mediator of family time / Stephanie Reich, Ksenia Korobkova, Rebecca W. Black and Mariya Sumaroka
- Digital play structures: examining the terms of use (an play) found in children's commercial virtual worlds / Sara M. Grimes
- Green pixels to green behaviours: sustainability literacy in virtual worlds for children / Eric Meyers and Robert Bittner
- An argument for assemblage theory: integrated spaces, mobility and polycentricity / Victoria Carrington
- Afterword / Jackie Marsh and Anne Burke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Esther F. Kantrowitz & Lionel Kantrowitz Collection Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1433118262
- 9781433118272
- 1433118270
- 9781433118265
- OCLC:
- 844774220
- Publisher Number:
- 99965545046
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