Play

Recent work on childrens digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through childrens engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on childrens digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new technologies.

The chapters in this book were contributed by an international range of respected researchers, who seek to extend our understandings of childrens interactions with new media both within and outside of school. They address and provide evidence for continuing debates around the following questions: What notions of creativity are useful in our fields? How does an understanding of play inform analysis of childrens engagement with digital cultures? How might school practice take account of out-of-school learning in relation to digital cultures? How can we understand childrens engagements with digital technologies in commercialised spaces?

Offering current research, theoretical debate and empirical studies, this intriguing text will challenge the thinking of scholars and teachers alike as it explores the evolving nature of play within the media landscape of the 21st-century.