Exploring Minecraft - Ethnographies of Play and Creativity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice. The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, and playful, and which moves ambivalently throughout everyday life. At the intersection of digital media, quotidian literacy, and ethnography, the book situates interdisciplinary debates around mundane play through the lens of Minecraft. Ultimately, Exploring Minecraft seeks to coalesce the discussion between formal and informal learning, fostering new forms of digital media creativity and ethnographic innovation around the analysis of games in everyday life.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Games in Context
Release date:	2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Larissa Hjorth • Ingrid Richardson • Hugh Davies • William Balmford
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	189
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-059907-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational resources & technology > General
LSN:	3-03-059907-8
Barcode:	9783030599072

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