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Children's games in the new media age : childlore, media and the playground / edited by Andrew Burn and Chris Richards.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the presentPublisher: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315571591
  • 1315571595
  • 9781317167556
  • 1317167554
  • 9781317167563
  • 1317167562
  • 9781317167549
  • 1317167546
  • 9781409450245
  • 1409450244
  • 9781409450252
  • 1409450252
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 790.1/922 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1203 .C344 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Children's playground games in the new media age / Andrew Burn -- 2. The Opie recordings : what's left to be heard? / Laura Jopson, Andrew Burn, Jonathan Robinson -- 3. '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 -- 4. Rought play, play fighting and surveillance : school playgrounds as sites of dissonance, controversy and fun / Chris Richards -- 5. The relationship between online and offline play : friendship and exclusion / Jackie Marsh -- 6. Remixing children's cultures : media-references play on the playground / Rebekah Willett -- 7. The game catcher : a computer game and research tool for embodied movement / Grethe Mitchell -- 8. Co-curating children's play cultures / John Potter.
Summary: The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games. A key element in the research was the digitization and analysis of Iona and Peter Opie's sound recordings of children's playground and street games from the 1970s and 1980s. This framed and enabled the research team's studies both of the Opies' documents of m.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 7, 2016).

The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games. A key element in the research was the digitization and analysis of Iona and Peter Opie's sound recordings of children's playground and street games from the 1970s and 1980s. This framed and enabled the research team's studies both of the Opies' documents of m.

1. Children's playground games in the new media age / Andrew Burn -- 2. The Opie recordings : what's left to be heard? / Laura Jopson, Andrew Burn, Jonathan Robinson -- 3. '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 -- 4. Rought play, play fighting and surveillance : school playgrounds as sites of dissonance, controversy and fun / Chris Richards -- 5. The relationship between online and offline play : friendship and exclusion / Jackie Marsh -- 6. Remixing children's cultures : media-references play on the playground / Rebekah Willett -- 7. The game catcher : a computer game and research tool for embodied movement / Grethe Mitchell -- 8. Co-curating children's play cultures / John Potter.

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