Everyday Media Play
Publication details
| DOI: | 10.7146/tjcp.v4i1.103493 |
| Issued: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Editors: | |
| Authors: | Johansen S. |
| Type: | Journal article |
| Journal: | Conjunctions |
| Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Topics: | Other |
| Sample: | "based on ethnographic field studies on children’s use of digital media such as smart- phones and tablets in educational as well as leisure contexts" (p. 4) "field studies have been carried out over a period of almost 15 years; a period in which children’s media use, and most likely also their play culture, has undergone significant changes fol- lowing the technological development. More specifically, I draw on a study of children’s football-related play practices (which is elaborated in Johansen, 2016a), a study on the iPad as a tool for play (Johansen, 2014 & Johansen 2016b), the Danish part of a cross-European study on young children’s use of digital technology in the home (Johansen, Larsen & Ernst, 2015) and finally an ongoing study on children and young people’s use of YouTube (initially presented in Johansen, 2017)." (p. 4) |
Abstract
IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY, THERE SEEMS TO BE A CONCEPTION THAT CHILDREN’S PLAY HAS DRAMATICALLY CHANGED OR THAT IT HAS BEEN DEPLOYED BY THE MASSIVE INFLUENCE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY. YET, WITHIN A FRAMEWORK OF MEDIATIZATION AND PRACTICE THEORY, AND BASED ON EXTENSIVE ETHNOGRAPHIES IN EVERYDAY CONTEXTS OF CHILDREN, DIFFERENT NARRATIVES, GENRES AND COMMUNICATIVE PATTERNS OCCUR. IN THIS ARTICLE, THE AUTHOR DRAWS A BROADER PICTURE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, POINTING TO RELEVANT DILEMMAS AND NUANCES IN THE FIELD.
Outcome
#Children’s play – and in this case children’s mediatized play – must be understood and described as connected practices made possible by material and symbolic artifacts, social and material structures, ways of playing and ways of being a child in a specific setting, which altogether constitutes play as a social, bodily and aesthetic expression" (p. 9)
"Play happens with, through and in media; and the acknowledge- ment of old and new play genres and expressions is important in discussions about the state of contemporary childhood" (p. 9)