| Creators: |
Inderst, Rudolf T. (Host) |
| Title: |
Podcast zu: The Child in Videogames : From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous Emma Reay / von Emma Reay, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. - ISBN 9783031423703 |
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Other |
| Event Title: |
New Books Network (NBN) |
| Event Dates: |
December 20, 2023 |
| Date: |
2023 |
| Divisions: |
Informationsmanagement |
| Abstract (ENG): |
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies, Emma Reay's book The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts.
It does so by cataloguing and critiquing representations of childhood across a corpus of over 500 contemporary videogames. While child-players are frequently the topic of academic debate – particularly within the fields of psychology, behavioural science, and education research - child-characters in videogames are all but invisible. This book's aim is to make these child-characters not only visible, but legible, and to demonstrate that coded kids in virtual worlds can shed light on how and why the boundaries between adults and children are shifting. |
| Language: |
English |
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| Citation: |
Inderst, Rudolf T. (Host)
(2023)
Podcast zu: The Child in Videogames : From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous Emma Reay / von Emma Reay, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. - ISBN 9783031423703.
In: New Books Network (NBN), December 20, 2023
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