Digital Materialities and Family Practices. The gendered, practical, aesthetical and technological domestication of play
Författare
Summary, in English
Digital gameplay is now firmly embedded in everyday practices in many Scandinavian homes. This paper deals with the constitution of such practices in families by taking a closer look at the material objects essential to play and their role in the “design of everyday life” (Shove et al 2007). It uses ethnographic method and anthropological practice theory to attend to the domestic spaces of leisure and play, the home environments, in which the large part of today’s practices of playing digital games takes place. It focuses on the stagings of material, not virtual, artifacts of gaming: screens, consoles, hand-held-devices essential to play and their locations and movements around the home. It demonstrates how everyday practices, seemingly mundane scenographies and choreographies, practically, aesthetically and technologically determined, order everyday space-time and artifacts, domesticate play and condition performances of family, gender and gaming. In the process, a history of the domestication of play unfolds
Avdelning/ar
- Division of Digital Cultures
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association - ToDigra
Volym
1
Issue
2
Fulltext
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Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA
Ämne
- Cultural Studies
Nyckelord
- Play
- gender
- family
- game-time
- game-space
- performance
- practice theory
- culture
- ethnography
- anthropology
- everyday life
- choreography
- scenography
- staging-play
- material culture
- ludotopia
- mobility
- domestic
- design of everyday life
- history-of-play
Status
Published
Projekt
- Gaming Moms: Juggling Time, Play and Family Life
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2328-9422