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Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context (Paperback)
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Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies
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Western digital game play has shifted in important ways over the
last decade, with a plethora of personal devices affording a range
of increasingly diverse play experiences. Despite the celebration
of a more inclusive environment of digital game play, very little
grounded research has been devoted to the examination of familial
play and the domestication of digital games, as opposed to evolving
public and educational contexts. This book is the first study to
provide a situated investigation of the site of family play- the
shared spaces and private places of gameplay within the domestic
sphere. It carries out an empirically grounded and critical
analysis of what marketing and sales discourses about shifts in the
digital games audience actually look like in the space of the home,
as well as the social and cultural role these ludic technologies
take in the everyday practices of the family in the domestic
context. It examines the material realities of video game
technologies in the home; including time management and spatial
organization, as well as the discursive role these devices play in
discussions of technological competence and its complex
relationship to age, generational differences, and gender
performance. Harvey's interdisciplinary approach and innovative
methodology will hold great critical appeal for those studying
digital culture, children's media, and feminist studies of new
media, as well as critical theories of technology and leisure and
sport theory.
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