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Connected Play: Tweens in a Virtual World (The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) - Hardcover

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Kafai, Yasmin B.; Fields, Deborah A.

 
9780262019934: Connected Play: Tweens in a Virtual World (The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0262019930 ISBN 13: 9780262019934
Verlag: MIT Press, 2013

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How kids play in virtual worlds, how it matters for their offline lives, and what this means for designing educational opportunities.

Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces as Habbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school, meet new people, construct avatars, and earn and spend virtual currency. In Connected Play, Yasmin Kafai and Deborah Fields investigate what happens when kids play in virtual worlds, how this matters for their offline lives, and what this means for the design of educational opportunities in digital worlds.

Play is fundamentally important for kids' development, but, Kafai and Fields argue, to understand play in virtual worlds, we need to connect concerns of development and culture with those of digital media and learning. Kafai and Fields do this through a detailed study of kids' play in Whyville, a massive, informal virtual world with educational content for tween players. Combining ethnographic accounts with analysis of logfile data, they present rich portraits and overviews of how kids learn to play in a digital domain, developing certain technological competencies; how kids learn to play wellresponsibly, respectfully, and safely; and how kids learn to play creatively, creating content that becomes a part of the virtual world itself.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Yasmin B. Kafai is Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and lead editor of Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming.



Deborah A. Fields is Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262019930
ISBN 13 
9780262019934
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
195
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