Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures

by Willett; Rebekah

• ISBN13: 9780415963114
• ISBN10: 0415963117
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on children's digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new technologies. The chapters in this book were contributed by an international range of respected researchers, who seek to extend our understandings of children's interactions with new media both within and outside of school. They address and provide evidence for continuing debates around the following questions: What notions of creativity are useful in our fields? How does an understanding of play inform analysis of children's engagement with digital cultures? How might school practice take account of out-of-school learning in relation to digital cultures? How can we understand children's engagements with digital technologies in commercialised spaces? Offering current research, theoretical debate and empirical studies, this intriguing text will challenge the thinking of scholars and teachers alike as it explores the evolving nature of play within the media landscape of the 21st-century.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Introduction: Encountering Play and Creativity in Everyday Life	p. 1
Contexts Of Digital Cultures
Introduction to Part I	p. 13
Games Within Games: Convergence and Critical Literacy	p. 15
Achieving a Global Reach on Children's Cultural Markets: Managing the Stakes of Inter-Textuality in Digital Cultures	p. 36
Consumption, Production and Online Identities: Amateur Spoofs on YouTube	p. 54
Children And Digital Cultures
Introduction to Part II	p. 71
The Texts of Me and the Texts of Us: Improvisation and Polished Performance in Social Networking Sites	p. 73
Exciting Yet Safe: The Appeal of Thick Play and Big Worlds	p. 92
Online Connections, Collaborations, Chronicles and Crossings	p. 108
Mimesis and the Spatial Economy of Children's Play Across Digital Divides: What Consequences for Creativity and Agency?	p. 125
Play, Creativity And Digital Learning
Introduction to Part III	p. 145
Creativity: Exploring the Rhetorics and the Realities	p. 147
What Education Has to Teach Us About Games and Game Play	p. 166
Digital Cultures, Play, Creativity: Trapped Underground.jpg	p. 183
Productive Pedagogies: Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures in the Classroom	p. 200
Conclusion	p. 219
Contributors	p. 229
Index	p. 233
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